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What bothers me is that I'm taking a look at the site, and quite frankly, it's underwhelming. First of all, this kinderStart site bills itself as a "search engine". I could point out a number of SEO issues with the site, starting with the appearance of the site, to the use of frames on the top menu, to the lack of easily discoverable sitemaps (no xml, txt nor static html sitemap page), no robots.txt at the site root directory, all the way down to the copyright date in the footer (as of this writing, it says "Copyright 2000 KinderStart.Com, Inc.").

Little wonder that a page with a copyright date of 2000 has had a decrease in visitor traffic during the past 6 years. Give me a break, people.

Plus, many of the SEO practices that KinderStart.com ignores are listed in the Google Information for Webmasters page.

hacking is clever.

What's 'Schmozilla' anyway?

Seems a bit of a puzzle, have a look at

http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2004/12/wizard.yel lowbrick.oz/

or

http://www.cleverhack.com/blog/archives/000887.htm l

Whoever's doing this has obviously been around for a while, since the second link is from 2003 ...

[cross posted from an old comment found elsewhere]
http://www.cleverhack.com/blog/archives/001049.htm l

Posted by: Paul at October 27, 2003 05:29 PM

Apple never had a product named after Sagan. At the time Apple had a horrible problem with the inside folks not keeping a secret. (what some people wouldn't do for a coffee mug back then.*)

So Apple had fun with the leakers and those that listened to them. They "invented" 3 machines and gave them names after famous scientific hoaxes. The first was named Piltdown, the second Sagan and I must confess I can't think of the third name.

The reason "Sagan" was used is because after the first Gulf War he was on CNN every night for 2 weeks scaring the shit out of everyone that the oil well fires would be the end of life itself. As we all know, he was an alarmist butt head.

The thing was the machines never existed. They were decoys. Sagan thought that having his name used with Piltdown and the 3rd hoax was somehow smearing his "good" name.

When Apple did make the 3 machines in question one of them was named BHA or "Butt Head Astronomer."

I forget now which machine the BHA was-- I think it was the 7100. I know I heard the story before the release and pulled some strings to have the first 2 in the state and I used it for years.

*BTW if you get this joke, you indeed are an old Mac geek

Posted by: Paul at October 27, 2003 05:30 PM
Drat- Just I hit post, I remembered...

Piltdown was the 6100
Sagan was the 7100
and
Cold Fusion was the 8100

P.S. I was also part of this crew, and I have a good idea who Paul is but I'm not telling. :) - Jim

This thread seems to indicate that people who never 'opted in' received the Dean spam.

go check the headers of the particular spam or better yet, go check the the HTML source.

Also, are you guys going to put a press release out on the site noting that the campaign has terminated the relationship with emailresults.net and eScriptions.com? Those are the two vendors you are referring to, correct?