We have all fallen victim to our fingers slipping and punching the wrong keys on the keyboard, and press enter before we even notice.
The crazy thing about that is there are people who create websites knowing that people will find it accidently when they are searching for another site.
I never really thought much about it, because I usually just find Web sites through Google and then you check it out a little more before you click usually. However, there are occasions when I think I know a site and just start typing the URL, and I have been taken to incorrect sites when doing that.
I am finding that this could be problematic for the future of journalism, because people can make newspaper pages that are incredibly similar to the actual official site and just hope that people will screw it up somehow.
Thieves, and Web site impersonators are making our society more skeptical, because who is to trust. It’s absolutely ridiculous to think that people could just be searching for some news online, and end up on a random site that looks exactly like the official one.
Legitimate or not is the question.
I never really check the URL of the pages that I am on I just look at the actual page and the content on it, but now it seems that I have to skeptical too.