Short answer: not always, even the top result. Scammers now pay to place fake ads above the real website, using web addresses built to look right at a glance.
Scammers buy paid ads that appear above the genuine search results for popular searches, your bank, a government agency, a well-known brand. The ad's web address looks almost identical to the real one, a single letter swapped, an extra hyphen, or a "0" standing in for the letter "o." Click it, and you land on a page built to look exactly like the real site, asking you to log in or enter payment details.
One real case involved a small business owner who searched for a government tax login, clicked the top result, and lost over $26,000 after entering her banking details on what looked like the official site. The page was a near-perfect copy, the only real difference was the web address in the bar at the top.
Google blocked over 5 billion harmful ads in a single recent year and suspended tens of millions of advertiser accounts, but new fake ads appear constantly. The platform catching most of them doesn't mean it catches all of them.
Before you click anything from a search result, especially for banking, government logins, or payments, read the full web address, not just the site name shown in bold. If it doesn't match exactly, letter for letter, don't click it. For anything sensitive, it's safer to type the address yourself directly into your browser, or use a bookmark you saved from the real site previously, rather than searching for it fresh every time.
This is one trick out of dozens. The Scam-Proof Playbook covers phishing, online shopping scams, phone scams, and more, in plain language, with real examples.