A belated response, but as I was totally unaware that this even happened, I'm going to leave my comments about it here:
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!
I would expect Google to have more than enough data to determine which site is the original creator of the data. They're a search engine, it's their core business to know these things.
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 times. But I guess victims value their privacy too much for that.
Google is no internet sheriff. They lost their "force for good" title more than a decade ago. Now they only care about keeping their profits up which means that they will turn a blind eye towards malicious stuff unless there is severe public pressure on them to block it.
It's one of the reasons why ChipMixer has the largest signature campaign here, and has near total penetration on Bitcointalk.