Especially when the alternative is "type the company name into google" where the top 3 results are ads and they've previously been seen to stick malware distribution sites above the legitimate company pages
Top 3 are ads? Usually it’s more like
1. D-tier AI Slop Overview
2. Shopping ads
3. A bunch of AdWords ads
4. A bunch more Google-specific content (maps etc)
5. 1-3 organic results (Or sometimes 0 unless you click a “More results” link)
This was happening for months with blender in 2022/2023, previously collected links about it here: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=34917701