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Online Store to Sue Blogger Over Google Ranking?
An anonymous reader writes "An online business owner is threatening to sue blog owner Dean Hunt (DeanHunt.com) because he is upset that the blog owner is doing better than his business in the Google search rankings. After an initial threat, Dean received a follow-up threatening to take legal action against him. So far Dean has elected not to name and shame this business owner."
The lawsuit isn't needed anymore. By posting the story to /. as an anonymous coward, the store owner just blasted the bloggers website off the net. Now google'ers will bypass the downed blog website, and go on to the store.
Brilliant!
Now that deanhunt has been slashdotted, the bogus claimant can rejoice, for deanhunt no longer exists (at least for a few hours).
A quite I heard:
Fighting on the internet is like the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.
While not necessarily the most tactful of quotes, it does ring true.
Sally only won home coming queen because she's a cheerleader and promiscuous!
I'd like to meet this Sally.
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What's the point of suing the blogger? If Google is the one that creates the page rankings, and is the reason why that blog is ranked higher than his website, how is it the blogger's fault?
I'm sorry, sir, but we won't be needing you and your fancy rational thinking on the jury. Have a nice day!
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Dear [edited]
Since your business [edited].com is doing rather well and top ranking is important to your business. Please transfer $[edited] in U.S. dollars to this [edited] account. When that happens I will gladly remove any and all references to [edited].com.
Thanks and bite me
See Misconfigured Webserver, Threats to Call FBI.
We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are.
-- Anais Nin
Put a little link at the top of his site saying "If you're looking for Texas lawyer .... click here (link)".
No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.
Wake up.
Is that the same James Meade that make "timeless classic quality clothing"? You know, the ones that aren't anything like Levi Strauss. I've lived in the UK for 27 years, and I've never heard of them!
:)
>If you're going to use the man's own words against him, then make sure you look at all his words.
Are you seriously arguing that the two don't coincide because the possibly fictitious story has a different timeline than his proclamation that he was going to start a fictitious story?
Um...do you know what fiction is?
3. Get removed from Google once they realize you're trying to game the system.
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Either way, if the guy's so concerned, why hasn't he registered deanhunt.biz? If you think I'm out of my mind, you've never encountered a lawyer before.
.ass would be a better TLD for lawyer sites. Generally speaking of course.
I have encountered many lawyers. Hence
My Suburban burns less gasoline than your Prius.
Yeah right... like you'd really be able to recruit her into your World of Warcraft guild.
On Slashdot, that's irrelevant.
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Didn't you hear the warnings about hair growing on the bottom of your mouse if you do that too often?
I hear the search term was "assvibrator".
2) This guy is quite clearly interested in fiddling with Google rankings - indulging him by linking and quoting his blog is really really not very helpful.
Presuming Mr. [edited] actually contacted Google as he said he did, he has admitted to Google that he DOES want to fiddle with his ratings. And thus I'm sure Google will give Mr. [edited] the exact amount of attention he deserves.
Tag lost or not installed.
An entry for wicktionary:
deanhunt
It looks like this is turning into a cautionary tale for would-be advertising gurus: just becoming widely known is not enough; you need to very much avoid becoming widely known as a laughingstock.
Actually, I think he want the email scanned for bit potential.
It is a well-known fact (among experts at least) that the standard deviation of the bit potential is higher than usual in faked emails. In a normal email, the 0s usually varies between -0.05 and +0.05 and the 1s between 0.95 and 1.05.
In a faked email created with a cheap falsification program, it is not unusual to see variation up to +/- 0.3 from the nominal value.
Using military software it is possible to get very close to the bit variation of a genuine email, but Mr. Hunt probably does not have access to such software. I believe I would know if he had.
How about these?
asshole
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