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Top non-ad google result for "polymarket" in Australia is a crypto scam
17 points by rtrgrd 130 days ago
Querying

https://www.google.com/search?q=polymarket

in Australia leads straight to a crypto scam. The scam website (polymarkets.*) seems to be 'organically' on the top. Perhaps this is because polymarket is banned in Aus?

3 comments

Surely banning the scam website instead of the real website would do more to protect Australians, no?
It'll get worse, I wrote an article about this recently: https://codeinput.com/blog/google-seo

tl;dr: With AI, Google mixing results from different places. But these are not human-verified and thus you can hijack someone else result.

idk, seems in character