Google Custom Search is a Google service that allows any webmaster to take advantage of Google’s indexing service. Google is not the first provider to ever offer something like this, Rollyo, Eurekster, and Yahoo among others did it before them. Google Custom Search Engine allows the webmaster to create a customized search engine for his/her website, based of course on Google searches.
Sadly this service has been misused by some people looking to create browser hijackers to show ads.
In all truth the customized search engine will have as much ads as Google does, the difference is that as it is manipulated by malicious developers it will contain more ads that pay the developer directly (up to 30% on ad’s revenues). For this to be interesting they need to force the site upon thousands of users, therefore they turn their efforts in creating browser hijackers based onGoogle Custom Search to force that traffic. In most cases the unwanted program remains active all the time setting measures in motion to make sure their search engine keeps being shown at you. That’s why manual attempts to remove it tend to fail.
The guide presented below will help you remove all unwanted programs from your computer, you’ll be able to replace Google Custom Search for a website of your own choice.
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