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Either way, et.al is used frequently in legal documents, at least in the USA. And they retrofit their new top level domains to old documents where it was never used as any sort of link.
et.al should be banned, literally for all previous legal court documents.
I think it was a typo, the phrase is usually written "et al." which cannot be confused with a domain.
You do realize another way to write et al is...
et. al.
Miss one space, bam, your typo turns into a link these days.
That's on you, not the internet or google. As has been pointed out, dot al is a TLD for a country. Just because you can't type properly and didn't spell check yourself, doesn't mean the internet is doomed.
You make typo, send it to friend, friend clicks link...
Is that origin.al or not?