To many people Google is the internet.
I ask a lot of customers which browser they use and I would say in about 70% of cases they say Google (and they don't mean Chrome which most have installed but don't know what it is or how it got there). Almost all of that 70% use internet explorer and have google as their home page - they have never heard of internet explorer - they simply use google.
Hell most people don't know what a web address is or where to put it if you know it - for the majority of people I come across if you say go to
www.bbc.co.uk or facebook they get there by putting into a google search and click the first link - without ever looking what website it is actually taking them to.
I have had a number of people call me and say what has happened to Facebook and when you investigate further they have clicked a google sponsored ad and aren't on Facebook at all!
Is this the fault of Google - not at all. There are a number of culprits:
- The individual who doesn't look at what they are doing (and mostly don't care)
- The stupid who don't understand what they are doing and don't want to know when you try to explain
- The even more stupid who claim to know what they are doing and are too arrogant to accept help
- The lazy - who want to use the internet like a washing machine and aren't in the least interested in how it works
I am just amazed I see so few real viruses (though I rarely see computers that aren't infected with some malware or other).
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