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The Dark Side of Paid Search
Tough Lefty writes "A new study by McAfee's SiteAdvisor Web ratings finds that sponsored results from some of the biggest names in the search engine business contain spyware, spam, scams and other Internet menaces. The key findings were that major search engines returned risky sites in their search results for popular keywords and sponsored results contained two to four times as many dangerous sites as organic results. Overall, MSN search results had the lowest percentage (3.9%) of dangerous sites while Ask search results had the highest percentage (6.1%). Google was in between (5.3%). Check the comprehensive study for all the data."
And if the spam breaks open many years too soon (whoa-ho-ho)
and if there is no room on my hard drive (whoa-hoa-hooooo)
and if your head explodes with scam site search results too,
I'll see you on the dark side of Paid Search (whooooaaaooo - hoooo whooaaaa-oh!)
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
I guess all these years of automatically ignoring and scrolling past the "sponsored" results has paid off.
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I just searched for "Babies" on Google and got this sponsored link in the sidebar:
Babies
Whatever you're looking for
you can get it on eBay.
www.eBay.com
Google is directing you to baby sellers! Alert the press this is EVIL!!
For more information, click here.
Once again, MSN proves to be the superior choice when it comes to search engine
OMG LOOK at those CUTE LI'L Puppies and Kittens on www.screensavers.com !!111 How can a website with LIKE SO MUCH Cuteness be evil ????!!!
screensavers.com just DESERVES it's top "Sponsored Link" spot in Google's results!!1
kthxbye!!
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
lol
The one for wife is funny too:
Wife for less
Looking for Wife?
Find exactly what you want today
www.eBay.com
I already have one, but one for less sounds very enticing.
If they paid attention to what I found offensive, everyone would have a much harder time finding information about Microsoft products...
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Representatives from the automotive insurance industry released a self-authored report yesterday that confirmed most freeways lead people through areas that are heavy in traffic, subject to increased probability of colissions and even vandalism and crime.
Auto insurance representatives questioned for the story said the frightening study proves that their product (which provides no guaranteed protection against auto collisions) is absolutely essential to safe driving. When asked why they spend millions of dollars to make sure they are not held liable in all but the most obvious of cases, insurance representatives had not comment, but reminded everybody how dangerous freeways are, and suggested that people should hold the state liable for offering such questional places for people to drive their cars in the first place.