yeah part of google worship has created common misconceptions like that things that appear in its automatic index are true answer to whatever question you have in mind (computers cant read minds). "this is the official link for some product" being only one possible question. then theres also the fact that a search engine cannot know the answer to "this is the right link for this software". i miss when search engines were just grep for the web and didnt pretend to be something more
this is a good example of how chicken shit design leads to security vulnerabilities. google probably lets the user post one link and make it lead somewhere else when you click it, as a "UX" feature. in reality it makes phishing much easier. this could have been avoided by not being a chicken shit and making links behave as one would expect, at the cost of 1% of use cases no longer working. the whole idea of treating URLs as a UX object is a misconception anyway, URLs should be opaque bit strings.
> a search engine cannot know the answer to "this is the right link for this software"
You would think keeping a curated list of well-known software projects (and others) would be low-hanging fruit. Instead, it is apparently better to throw money into complicated systems... that can't even catch the most basic form of linkjacking.
> this is a good example of how chicken shit design leads to security vulnerabilities. google probably lets the user post one link and make it lead somewhere else when you click it, as a "UX" feature.
I have always found a bit of subtle arrogance in this kind of thought process. It's like they've never bothered learning the basic functions of the web and how it is meant to work and think they know better than the original creators.
this is a good example of how chicken shit design leads to security vulnerabilities. google probably lets the user post one link and make it lead somewhere else when you click it, as a "UX" feature. in reality it makes phishing much easier. this could have been avoided by not being a chicken shit and making links behave as one would expect, at the cost of 1% of use cases no longer working. the whole idea of treating URLs as a UX object is a misconception anyway, URLs should be opaque bit strings.