Watch out: ɢoogle.com isn’t the same as Google.com

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If you don’t watch where you’re going on the internet, before you know it you might be headed down a dark alley. This fake Google website proves that.

Like a lot of big websites, we use Google Analytics to keep track of traffic on TNW. A few weeks ago, however, we spotted something that looked a bit out of the ordinary.

Yep, that’s some proper Analytics spam to vote for Trump. It looks like you can get special access to something by copy-pasting the link to a Google website.

But something seems a bit off about the link — the capital G seems smaller than normal, being about the same size as a lowercase letter. Let’s take a closer look.