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What I find incredible about this is that Google has gotten so good at returning exactly what we want that we no longer bother checking the authenticity of it,
by tghw 15y ago
What I find incredible about this is that Google has gotten so good at returning exactly what we want that we no longer bother checking the authenticity of it, even when it's something specific. If Google was "lagging behind on the game" as some people are suggesting, this never would have happened because we wouldn't be trusting it to return what we want.
- bittermang 15y agoSo I guess you're saying you're not feeling lucky anymore?
- hollerith 15y agoI would frame the situation a little differently: Google got good enough that we started to trust it for this purpose (which we might call a "brand-name lookup services") but then in the last few years, it has declined and become untrustworthy. IMHO Google is very vulnerable to competition by new brand-name lookup services.
- ams6110 15y agoSpeak for yourself, I always make sure I'm on the vendor's/author's official site before I download code. I never download code from 3rd parties.
- tghw 15y agoI'm not saying I would do this, I'm just kind of amazed that Google has gained so much trust that some people have stopped bothering.
- ojilles 15y agoGenuine question: how do you do that?
- tghw 15y agoLook at the domain. If I'm downloading jQuery, it should be jquery.com. If I'm not sure what the domain should be, try to get it from someone I do trust, like the Google-hosted libraries[1]. If it's from GitHub or BitBucket, try to make sure the person who owns the repo is actually the one maintaining it (so I don't get a broken copy or one with something "extra"). It's all mostly just common sense and a little bit of extra scrutiny. [1] http://code.google.com/apis/libraries/devguide.html http://code.google.com/apis/libraries/devguide.html