Am I reading this right, does this mean that Google received a complaint from the .online domain and it got the original .com domain removed from searches because of this?
That would be amazingly dumb! Does this mean Google just follows any BS claim without verifying anything? But when it's about taking down a reported phishing site, they don't seem to care? It doesn't make sense. The word "stupid" doesn't even cover it!
Now on to the obvious question right now, can we simple users do something about this?
I'm starting to think of adding this to /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 google.com
Reporting to google for fake misleading ads is one thing and I did that a lot of times, but here is something that I guess is a bit more complicated, so stick to reporting the xyz domain as a phishing website via the safebrowsing report tool or is there something else we can do about it?
It would be interesting if a scammed user sues Google over this. They're actively promoting a scam, despite being reported to them many timse. But I guess victims value their privacy too much for that.