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You get a search result page instead of going directly to the site (that's how I noticed they were doing it).
by bambax 10y ago
You get a search result page instead of going directly to the site (that's how I noticed they were doing it).
- ericd 10y agoIt does have the nice feature of spell checking for you :-) It's a good bit safer to search for your bank site, for example, since there're large incentives for phishing sites to sit on common misspellings of bank domains.
- Retric 10y agoI actually do this just for financial sites I don't have bookmarked. It's faster if I miss type and vastly safer.
- dublinben 10y agoThere are conflicting incentives for search engines (Yahoo seems much worse than Google for this) to allow paid results for phishing sites above the real result. I can often tell exactly which phishing site a user is getting directed to instead of the real domain that they want.