Internet pet peeve #358

[Locut0s]

Those web sites that steal your web search terms and dynamically create a junk/spam page with that exatc phrase. You type in "virus scan freewrae" and the 2nd result is a page with that exact title, when you click it all you see is a list of spam ads for other unrelated security products. Some of these are instead fake looking portal sites that take your search terms and seem to pull up their own searches only again it's all spam.

 

[zerocool84]

That's why when you type something into google you read the description first before visiting the page.

 

[Lean L]

its even worse when site are designed to mimic a directory and they end up redirecting to spam

 

[Locut0s]

That's why when you type something into google you read the description first before visiting the page.

Well this isn't how I would search for most things anyway but yeah you are right. Although sometimes they manage to fool you with the description too depending on what you are looking for.

 

[Kalmah]

It's even better when you type in some very elaborate search term and you get exact matches bolded in the middle of random words. Just a mass jumble of random text.