Rachel Maddow has blamed Google that it has been hiding search results to the bottom of the page, and gives her advertisements that redirect to another unrelated ad instead. With this occurrence, Maddow of MSNBC said that she is switching engines, but was exposed to have malware or bad extension, which is not Google's fault.
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 14: Television host Rachel Maddow arrives for a lunch hosted in honor of Prime Minister David Cameron at the State Department on March 14, 2012 in Washington, DC. Cameron is on an official visit to Washington, where President Obama will host him at a State Dinner tonight.
How do you know you have malware if it is unseen or undetected by a computer firewall? Well, chances are a user would not, until the PC malfunctions or gives a glitch that makes it function unexpectedly. This is what Rachel Maddow has been allegedly experiencing with her Google search engine, which she belligerently called out via social media.
Google has been cleaning up its efficiency and aims to optimize its search results and other elements under it, especially with its Play Store efforts of removing unwanted or misleading apps from appearing. While most tech companies and users are targeted by malware daily, sometimes people would not even consider that they are infected as they remain unknowing of the incident.
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Rachel Maddow is Badly Infected by Malware, Blames Google
In the recent tweet of the TV and talk show host from MSNBC (@maddow), Maddow believes that it was Google's fault, as to why she is getting unoptimized search results and gets misleading advertisements instead. She has narrated her experience, which is enough to let people know her situation and what is wrong with her Google search.
Oldster here. As dependent on Google as anyone.
But! this belligerent new thing where search results jump down the page to make room for un-labeled ads, and then when you click a result, google instead opens a new tab with an ad you weren't trying to click...
Grrr. I'll switch.— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) May 4, 2021
With this, Google Public Search Liason, Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) has addressed her issue and said that this is not what Mountain View's search engine does on a normal basis. Instead of unwanted and mistargeted search ads, Google's engine posts the exact or related search first, before going to the ads section inserted in the page.
Sullivan was also joined by another Twitter user who seems to have experienced the same situation to explain what has happened, and has suggested that she might be experiencing a malware infection. In this particular case, it might be adware, especially as everywhere Maddow has allegedly clicked, takes her to another tab and showed irrelevant ads.
How to Know if You Have a Malware
Malware has an ingenious way of disguising or hiding from a computer, more so if it was a sophisticated and orchestrated attack against a person. Most of the time, malware cannot be detected by antivirus software and even Microsoft's Defender program that protects against threats or viruses.
If something is up with one's computer and is not acting the way it should have been, chances are it has a malware infection, as it is deeply embedded into systems. Moreover, threat actors already have disguised themselves in websites, emails, or other elements found on the internet, that activate once clicked.
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Written by Isaiah Richard
