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.
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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.
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1. But I'm not holding my breath.
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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).
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2. Hmmm, I thought, perhaps they let their domain expire.
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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].
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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.
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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] /boston/2021/11/06.1

[2] https://blackdogsalvage.com/

[3] http://brevardnc.org/

[4] https://www.youtube.com/

[5] https://duckduckgo.com/

[6] /boston/2016/04/20.1

[7] https://www.blackdogsalvage.com/

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