From: "hal.bookbinder@ucla.edu
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 02:09:28 +0000
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] Misleading Google Results
Dear IAJGS Leaders,
We routinely rely on Google to find information and websites that we want to access. Yet the top sites returned may not be what you want but rather sites that paid for top placement. Other sites below are ordered based on secret and regularly changing algorithms. Yet, most of us continue to click on one of to top sites listed and rarely go to the second or third page. This can be an expensive mistake. This month's Practicing Safe Computing article provides some real-life examples of deceptive Google results.
"Misleading Google Results" has been published in the November, 2020 issue of "Venturing into Our Past", the Newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV). Current and prior newsletters are freely available at the Society's website, http://www.jgscv.org/
All Practicing Safe Computing articles published to date are available in a single PDF that includes an index. This resource is freely accessible at https://tinyurl.com/SafeComputingArticles
We will continue to update this resource with monthly articles. Consider placing a link to it on your society's web site or otherwise sharing it with your members as an ongoing free resource, reminding them when new articles are available.
If you have any questions or suggestions for future articles, please contact me.
Best,
Hal
Hal Bookbinder
Los Angeles, CA
