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."

Comments

Re:please counter-sue

[LurkerXXX]

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!

Reminds me of....

[SuperStretchy]

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.

Re:Even easier.

[no reason to be here]

Sally only won home coming queen because she's a cheerleader and promiscuous!

I'd like to meet this Sally.

My response

[DebianDog]

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

Tuttle Award nominee

[DrJimbo]

I nominate the anonymous businessman for the first annual Tuttle Award.

See Misconfigured Webserver, Threats to Call FBI.

Re:Even easier.

[dourk]

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.

Re:Here's my secret

[Nasarius]

3. Get removed from Google once they realize you're trying to game the system.

Re:Even easier.

[kaizenfury7]

Yeah right... like you'd really be able to recruit her into your World of Warcraft guild.

Re:He is in the SEO biz, and this is a viral campa

[mysticgoat]

An entry for wicktionary:

deanhunt

1. noun A particularly stupid way to shoot yourself in the foot with a viral advertising campaign gone bad. That advertising firm went bankrupt after the deanhunt it launched in December, 2006.
2. verb To publicly state that one is going to perpetrate a big advertising hoax and then attempt to initiate that hoax on slashdot or another forum known to be full of clever, investigative skeptics with lots of time on their hands. The advertising campaign might have been successful if its author hadn't deanhunted it on slashdot.
3. deanhunted, deanhunting adjective Referring to the state of self-destruction of credibility due to a particularly stupid deanhunt. The deanhunted advertising agency was never able to recover after the unfortunate series of events that it triggered in December 2006.

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.

Re:Mod Parent DOWN

[rk]

How about these?

asshole

shithead