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Google’s New Search Redirects Make It Harder to Check Where Links Lead Before Clicking

Cybersecurity NewsSeptember 15, 20264 min read

Google is changing how some search-result links behave. Certain results now pass through an encoded Google redirect rather than opening the listed site, making a browser’s link preview less useful as a quick safety check. The change comes as malicious advertising, search-result poisoning, and lookalike download pages keep turning ordinary searches into routes for scams […] The post Google’s New Search Redirects Make It Harder to Check Where Links Lead Before Clicking appeared first on Cyber Security News.

Google is changing how some search-result links behave. Certain results now pass through an encoded Google redirect rather than opening the listed site, making a browser’s link preview less useful as a quick safety check. The change comes as malicious advertising, search-result poisoning, and lookalike download pages keep turning ordinary searches into routes for scams and malware. Users may still see a familiar site name in the result, but their ability to compare that…

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