I came across this issue just now when searching for "ec2 pricing" - the featured snippet links to https://aws.amazon.com/emr/pricing/ instead of https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/, which looks close enough to the correct URL that I didn't notice it was the wrong page until I realised I couldn't find costs for i3 (which just came out). I'm surprised that no one at Google has fixed it yet; surely there are at least some Google engineers that use AWS for personal projects.
The number of possible letters is much, much smaller than the number of possible dictionary words. The latter would take many orders of magnitude longer to brute force, which would make it unfeasible.
Kenneth Cain, a former UN human rights lawyer, wrote a piece in a similar vein: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/apr/03/theobserver1 It was written over a decade ago but some of the points mentioned still feel very familiar today.