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New Research Shows Search Engines are Manipulated to Lead Consumers to Internet Drug Outlets
A recent report from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University provides new information showing growth in the number of Internet drug outlets and describes some of the technology used by the operators of such sites. For example, the researchers analyzed the top search results for 218 drug-related queries over nine months in 2010 and 2011 and found that search results were manipulated “to promote unauthorized pharmacies,” as noted in a university press release. “One third of the collected search results were of 7,000 infected websites triggered to redirect to a few hundred pharmacy websites.” The study concluded that manipulating search engines by compromising search result links so that they redirect to Internet drug outlets can lure consumers more efficiently than e-mail spam.
