I don't know about this, but this has become a pet peeve of mine, especially with Windows users who do this, and then click the very top link which is a paid ad and it ended up being a scam, and installed malicious software on their computer!
So I never understood this mentality, rather than saying to a website's URL which is inherently obvious such as say a bank (Wells Fargo being wellsfargo.com, Chase being chase.com, Amazon being amazon.com) etc they would literally waste their time going to Google, searching for this and clicking the top link! This is equivalent to me as someone using a GPS to drive to the Walgreens down the road from their house, despite passing it every day, knowing where it is. In some cases it would also mean that the GPS would be directing them to a billboard or something totally unrelated instead because the Google link is totally wrong!
I understand for some people it is a skill thing, but some people are IT people still doing this. Google isn't the internet, Google isn't your web browser (not talking about Chrome
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/rant from someone who has to fix Windows computers for people all day and every day.
So I never understood this mentality, rather than saying to a website's URL which is inherently obvious such as say a bank (Wells Fargo being wellsfargo.com, Chase being chase.com, Amazon being amazon.com) etc they would literally waste their time going to Google, searching for this and clicking the top link! This is equivalent to me as someone using a GPS to drive to the Walgreens down the road from their house, despite passing it every day, knowing where it is. In some cases it would also mean that the GPS would be directing them to a billboard or something totally unrelated instead because the Google link is totally wrong!
I understand for some people it is a skill thing, but some people are IT people still doing this. Google isn't the internet, Google isn't your web browser (not talking about Chrome
/rant from someone who has to fix Windows computers for people all day and every day.