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Google, Mozilla, et alia have trained people to not enter "www.whitehouse.gov" into the combined search/url bar, but simply "white house", and then to click on

by black6 5y ago

Google, Mozilla, et alia have trained people to not enter "www.whitehouse.gov" into the combined search/url bar, but simply "white house", and then to click on one of the links that shows up in search results, because this behavior increases clicks on their ads. It's shameful. Businesses used to list the URL for their company website. Now it's "find us on facebag!"

hansvm 5y ago
To be fair, I'm more likely to get the official site in the presence of a typo via a search engine. In the case of .gov it doesn't matter as much since it's a tiny bit difficult to spoof them, but typo squatters are a problem for the rest of the web.