Two nonexistent search results

BLah

Today I was searching for straining bags for making beer, and found two results that seemed like a product pages in a EU online store. However, upon clicking the links, the pages don’t exist. Upon closer inspection, one of the websites is a Dutch NGO supporting women and the other one is an Estonian campground, neither of which have any web shop at all. Seems weird at best, very sketchy at worst. It is also possible that the sites have been compromised.

To reproduce:

Set search region to Finland
Search for “straining bags beer cotton”
Check search results for feniks.nl & karujarve.ee

The links shown in search results:

https://feniks.nl/297448/26x22-quot-2-Pack-Cotton-Mesh-Straining-Bags-For-Wine-Beer

https://www.karujarve.ee/11x2-quot-Mesh-Straining-Bags-For-Beer-Wine-Nut-Milk-n-676655

Expected result: No nonexistent/potentially malicious search results show up

RoxyRoxyRoxy

Looking at the whois for feniks.nl and karujarve.ee, they were both updated relatively recently. It's likely these used to have a webshop at those locations before. This should be resolved the next time whatever upstream crawls the site. Nothing we can really do as it's not fair to penalise the sites for stale searxh indexes.

BLah

RoxyRoxyRoxy

I think there's something else going on. I redid the search now and found another similar result:

https://seniena.lt/Brew-Bags-2-Pack-22x26-quot-100-Cotton-Mesh-Bags-For-Beer-r-526094

The URL logic is identical to the two earlier results (that don't show up anymore). This website actually has a webshop but it's fully in lithuanian whereas the search result was in english. The actual product pages use a different url scheme, for example:

https://seniena.lt/produktas/antikvarine-sofa/

This also seems to have had the domain registered since 2016.

It's also very unlikely that such a small shop would have 582 reviews on a very niche item: