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More evidence of Google's conflict of interest in protecting its users from spammers & scammers

Found a smoking gun on how Google's conflict of interests actually hurts Google users, which I explain later in this post.

  • As I have blogged several times of late, here, here, here, here, and here, Google works for advertisers and publishers not users/consumers; and Google's undisclosed conflict of interest, lulls Google's users into a false sense of security that Google is looking out for users' best interests -- and safety -- when they clearly are not.
  • I have found specific evidence below that Google is not looking out for its users' best interests or safety. 

Google knows there are "potentially harmful sites that make Google users more vulnerable to spammers or scammers. I have suggested before that they could easily warn users of the danger from specific results with warnings on search result pages.

  • Yahoo has shown us that it can be done, and how it can be done
    • When I searched for "Clearwire announcement" Yahoo's results came up with three listings that had potentially harmful spam links. 
    • When I searched on Google to see if one of those identified harmful sites had a warning on Google, here and here, -- I found no such user-concerned corporate responsibility from Google. 
      • I would be interested to learn from Google what their explanation for this is.

If Google truly works for and cares for its users, why don't they warn their users to the known dangers of spammers or scammers -- like Yahoo is doing?