> I was wrong, especially because I downloaded Putty myself from putty.org, whenever I happened to play with Windows machines, without thinking once that putty.org is not the official source.
If you had used duckduckgo, you would have known better:
Granted, DDG does give better results for "windows ssh client".
I don't use DDG because it's awful for users not living in the US. I'm not talking about the interface, but about local results. It also doesn't get the context well - when I search for Ruby or Python on Google, I get different results than my wife does ;-)
Note, just tried it, and if you put in a more likely cased "Putty" or "putty" in the URL, the official site badge isn't offered (though PuTTY official page does show up in top 3).
It's really AOL keywords all over again - nothing bad, but just not Google's style.
But what it does give you is the option to re-search on "PuTTY" from the quick-info box, which I almost always do when looking for an authoritative info source.
I just tried 'putty download' on DDG (what I would have probably used on Google). putty.org was first, followed by chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html (but lacking any indication this is the right one) and cnet, which I already know sucks. On Google, www.chiark.greenend.org.uk came first for that same query. Entering 'putty' alone on Google also lead straight to chiark, even with "private results" hidden.
Then I tried 'putty' alone on DDG. I got a Wikipedia-style disambiguation (cool!), and clicking the obvious alternative lead directly to the chiark result, this time bearing an "Official site" badge.
If you had used duckduckgo, you would have known better:
https://duckduckgo.com/PuTTY
Official site. It's one of my favourite DDG features. It's just weird how Google doesn't have it.