Hackers paid to make a malicious link the top Google Search result.
edoardottt/awesome-hacker-search-engines
A curated list of awesome search engines useful during Penetration testing, Vulnerability assessments, Red/Blue Team operations, Bug Bounty and more
Google’s broken link to the web
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background
Why Google’s New AI-Saturated Search Page Will Be A Disaster
Google didn’t invent full-text search of the Internet – that honor belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has…
CSP Bypass Search
A tool designed to help ethical hackers bypass restrictive Content Security Policies
Google Just Ruined One of Its Most Important Tools
Google Earth was a boon for researchers—and then came the deepfakes.
Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
We found evidence on urlquery that AI agents were active earlier than previously reported and attempted hacks against public data providers.
A Former Google Engineer Built a Search Engine for Finding Every Privacy Violation You Face Online
Former Google engineer Tim Libert is releasing a search engine, webXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking—with the goal of becoming “the Henry Ford of tech lawsuits.”
Less than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click - SparkToro
We've passed a milestone in Google's evolution from search engine to walled-garden. In June of 2019, for the first time, a majority of all browser-based
This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build," the founder of Stract said.
Researcher hacks Claude Code Chrome fix in 3 hours
Researchers say a flaw in Claude Code’s Chrome extension let any browser extension hijack AI actions – and Anthropic’s patch was bypassed in just 3 hours.
Deep-Research Agents Can Be Poisoned via User-Generated Content
Deep-research agents, i.e., systems that rely on multi-agent pipelines to iteratively retrieve, synthesize, and cite Web content in order to produce structured reports, are rapidly replacing traditional search for both routine and complex information needs. These agents issue many related queries during a single research session. We show that for many common search topics, they repeatedly retrieve the same user-generated content (UGC) pages from platforms such as Reddit and Wikipedia. Next, we argue that this retrieval overlap creates a concentrated attack surface: an adversary who appends a short, crafted text to a single, frequently retrieved UGC page can cause the agent to cite attacker-chosen content and promote attacker-chosen entities across many related queries. We evaluate this attack on three representative deep-research systems (STORM, Co-STORM, and OmniThink) across multiple query clusters. We also study defenses at different stages of the pipeline, including source-level filtering and output-based detection. Our findings highlight a fundamental vulnerability in how deep-research agents retrieve and integrate web content.
The Age of PageRank is Over
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
Exposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware - The Citizen Lab
This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru’s spyware. We also uncover Discover-Tech, and show how the company helps mercenary surveillance vendors track and hack devices around the world.
Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find
"The majority of high-ranking product reviews in the result pages of commercial search engines use affiliate marketing, and significant amounts are outright SEO product review spam."
