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           Observations of a few oddities, this time on the Intarwebs
                                        
Two observations about previous post [1]:

  1. While at Black Dog Salvage [2] Bunny took a picture of me standing next
     to a large slab of cherry wood (price—a cool $800, and that wasn't the
     most expensive slab of wood) and then we went on to get lost in the Hall
     of Doors.
     
  1. Once we got back to Brevard [3], I started noticing online advertising
     for slabs of wood. I wish I was making that up, but no, I started
     receiving ads for slabs of wood. I'm hoping it was because Bunny and I
     watched a few wood working videos on Youtube [4] and not because of a
     picture Bunny took of me.
     
  1. But I'm not holding my breath.
     
  2. I use Duck Duck Go [5] as my search engine. While I was writing the
     previous entry, I used Duck Duck Go to search for the Black Dog Salvage
     Company website. The first link, I click, and I'm redirected directly to
     some spam pharmacy site wishing to extend my mortgage by 3″ (or 8cm for
     those Imperially challenged).
     
  2. Hmmm, I thought, perhaps they let their domain expire.
     
  2. Curious, I go back to a previous entry [6] just to check the link there,
     and no, it goes to the Black Dog Salvage site [7].
     
  2. Now I'm paranoid. I check the link on Duck Duck Go, and it's
     https://www.blackdogsalvage.com/. I check the link on the Black Dog
     Salvage site I'm viewing, and it's https://www.blackdogsalvage.com/.
     It's the same text! I have no idea what to think! Perhaps some black
     arts to game the results in Duck Duck Go? I don't know.
     

Okay, I decided to dig a bit deeper into that last one. I used Google to
search for “Black Dog Salvage,” clicked on the obvious result and … ended up
at that same sketchy pharmacy site. Now I think that the Black Dog Salvage
site has been hacked to redirect people to the sketchy pharmacy site when
coming from a search engine, and not something wrong with Duck Duck Go or
Google.

Sigh.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2021/11/06.1
[2] https://blackdogsalvage.com/
[3] http://brevardnc.org/
[4] https://www.youtube.com/
[5] https://duckduckgo.com/
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2016/04/20.1
[7] https://www.blackdogsalvage.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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