GOOGLE turning to crap??

[araczynski]

over the last week or two i've started noticing that whenever i do a search on google (using toolbar or their main page) i first get a page of 'related' commercial crap before having to continue to the next page with the actual search results.

did i miss some setting somewhere?? or are they actually turning their service into nothing more then another crappy search engine like yahoo/excite/etc.

i hope those greedy skank pig biotches burn in hell if its the case.

 

[SgtZulu]

Wrong forum n00b

 

[ViRGE]

You have spyware. I've seen exactly what you're talking about: one of the spyware programs redirects you to a "commercial" page, before, taking you to the real Google for page 2. Run Spy Sweeper and Ad Aware, and get back to us.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Well thoes "greedy skank pig biotches", as you so eloquently put it, are still the best there is. So deal with it.

 

[Psych]

Google's policy can be found on their website somewhere, and it clearly states that annoying popups and search redirect pages will not be used for advertisement.

 

[SneakyStuff]

I don't see what you see, you must have spyware.

 

[DaveSimmons]

(a) stop saying "yes" to installing WeatherBug
(b) learn to post in the right forum

 

[araczynski]

Thanks ViRGE and SneakyStuff for the suggestions, you were correct. Unfortunately neither Adaware or SpySweeper were able to find the actual spyware for this one, which kinda schocked me to be honest. Turns out it was a variant of the CoolWebSearch trojan, I used CWShredder which was written only for this particular trojan (smells fishy...) to remove it. Now my google's pure again. My apologies to Google for not trusting them 😉 I'll email them actually to apologize, i love those guys.

The rest of you guys who make idiotic assumptions, have nothing better to do then jack up your post counts, and see your own name on the screen, need to get a clue. If you don't have something usefull to contribute why are you wasting your breath?

If this thread helps one other person then it was worth the 'hassle'.

Thanks again.

 

[Juice Box]

yes, spyware, i get no ads, me good