Possible brand impersonation
Typosquatting clone of Google.com flagged as questionable despite its 25-year domain age. The page looks styled like a known brand but may not be authentic. Check the URL carefully and navigate to the brand's real site before signing in or paying.
Is hoogle.com legit or a scam?
Typosquatting clone of Google.com flagged as questionable despite its 25-year domain age.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site is a deliberate misspelling of google.com that loads as a clone. Our fingerprinting confirms both clone and typosquat matches, which is the strongest risk signal. Only one antivirus engine flagged it malicious while browser lists stayed clean. The domain itself is over 25 years old with valid SSL, reducing the chance of a brand-new scam operation. Evidence shows one independent site rates it questionable with no widespread user complaints found.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for hoogle.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain hoogle.com repeatedly listed in articles as example of Google typosquat (e.g. hoogle.com, foogle.com).
- Haskell API search tool is officially at hoogle.haskell.org; Reddit users explicitly warn against hoogle.com.
- scam-detector.com rates hoogle.com as 'questionable' with medium trust score.
- No scam complaints, fraud reports, or user reviews found on Reddit or general web searches.
- Domain registered for ~25 years (9193 days) per provided data; no owner/registration details surfaced.
- scam-detector.comopen
"Is hoogle.com legit? It's definitely questionable. If you plan to do business on this site, proceed with caution as it received a medium score on our chart."
Frequently cited in typosquatting examples as a misspelling of google.com (h near g on keyboard)
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Domain is a typosquat of google.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of google.com.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Domain is a typosquat of google.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of google.com.
Possible brand impersonation
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Treat hoogle.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review marked hoogle.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- hoogle.com currently scores 30/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. hoogle.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by GoDaddy.com, Inc. · Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, expiring in 83 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- hoogle.com is 25.2 years old, registered on 3/30/2001 through Wild West Domains, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged hoogle.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. hoogle.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hoogle.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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