Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its search platform to trick people into downloading booby-trapped copies of popular free software applications. The malicious ads, which appear above organic search results and often precede links to legitimate sources of the same software, can make searching for software on Google a dicey affair.
On Windows, use Winget and/or Chocolatey to download your software when possible. There’s an unofficial site at https://winget.run/ that lets you browse all available Winget packages.
Microsoft store is good too, but not everything is listed there.
WingetUI supports them all: https://github.com/marticliment/WingetUI
Btw, winget: https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/