"Not so much". Scammers are going to scam, always did, always going to do. But if it was not for Google happily putting the scammer's ads on top, legitimizing the scam to an extent, OP would've never been scammed. Or was OP wrong to believe that Google would provide him with accurate information?

As the only company in this story raking in more than 100 billions of dollars in revenue annually, and employing 100k people, and access to an enormous capacity of computing power and the brightest brains in the world, they surely were best placed to prevent this from happening, nor did they have any incentive to enable this scam. Yet, the quick buck won, once again.