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Looks like i pissed some people off with this. Maybe a few other people fell for this too? "Dude was careless" is the entire point. Google should not have rank
by mtogo 15y ago
Looks like i pissed some people off with this. Maybe a few other people fell for this too?
"Dude was careless" is the entire point. Google should not have ranked that site above jQuery's site, but you should check that you are at least downloading your JS from the right domain.
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoNow imagine it's your first time getting a copy of JQuery because you've heard how awesome it is. You go to Google to find the JQuery site. How would you ever know it was a fraudulent site? Google is providing a service that vouches for the authenticity of sites by their ranking in the search results. They failed.
- AndyJPartridge 15y agoGoogle is providing a service that gives search results based on keywords you enter. They try to be helpful by ranking them in some fashion, but at the end of the day it's up to you how you use the results that are returned.
- msbarnett 15y agoWe know from decades of research into human psychology and the causes of accidents that our attention spans are not infinite and that we will often see what we are expecting to see. In my first glance at the spoofed site I did not see the .it in the domain, because the entire context of the site convinced my brain that I would see the URL I was expecting, blog.jquery.com. We can either rail against the realities of human nature and persist in blaming the user, or we can accept that asking the user to check everything always is a plan guaranteed to fail, and build better tools to help eliminate the problem. I vote for pragmatism and better tools.