I stopped when she "grew confused" by the weird articles. Perhaps she shouldn't be viewing webpages at all. Most people would recognize this instantly as nonsense, click the back button, and select another search result.
Whoa. I knew some people sadly use Google even when they know the url, but this is just... wtf?!
No wonder why there's so many phishing spams, people so uneducated for web usage must get owned all the time... Maybe it's time for primary school to teach children basics about how to use a computer a bit more safely. The problem with this is that every time I saw something like it, it was actually advertisement for Microsoft products dispensed by teachers who didn't knew what a url is (and they're not to blame for that).
To use an analogy, humanity is still an equivalent of a bunch of 3 year olds alone in a middle of a busy city square as far as web maturity goes. Some might know not to wonder into the car traffic but would still fall for a stranger with a candy in his van.
The unification of search and URL bar in Firefox, Chrome, and mobile browsers makes this even more common, at least for me. I don't always know if the browser is going to find a bookmark, something in my history, search Google, or try to open an URL.
For what it's worth, they were definitely pushing it when I was in college, and as far as I know, it's expanding into the high school level and possibly further. And actually spreading it was an explicit goal of many librarians and librarians-to-be I knew.
It could be better, certainly, but it's also being worked on.
Design related spam seems to be an area where a stack exchange like site could step in and really take off.. lists of lists of lists of blogs of my favorite 50 photoshop brushes..
I agree, there's a lot of tiring unrelated stuff on the internet, the only way to avoid it, sadly, is to wade through it, till you find what you're looking for.
The users who got confused when by accident RRW ranked higher than Facebook because of an article with the word facebook and login.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_yo...
But even for us "in the know"
Try and google for photoshop tutorials and you will have to wade through endless of these fake pages.
It is a real problem.