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US State Sues Web/SEO Firm For Deceiving Mom-and-Pops

Posted by kdawson on from the about-time dept.

netbuzz writes "The state of Washington is suing a search engine optimization and Web services outfit, based in Redmond, that has done business under the names Visible.net, Captures.com, and WebMarketingSource.com. In essence, the state says these entities have deceived mostly mom-and-pop sites through unfulfilled performance promises and financial shenanigans after charging up to $10,000 in up-front charges and more in monthly fees. About 90 complaints have been lodged over four years, the state says."

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  1. Yet They Will Allow Wire Tapping by CHRONOSS2008 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yet They Will Allow Wire Tapping

  2. Re:You would think by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wikipedia is known for "winning" the SEO game because of its "open source" nature (and thus has "linux zealots" linking to it, see every slashdot articles comments), but is full of POV pushers and inaccuracies due to anyone editing the "top result" to get "their" share of the "pie".

    They also abuse their postition to censor reliable sources as "not notable". If you are interested in this, search for "deletionism" and "wikipedia and google".

    --
    Ex-Wikipedian, who now is known as "Willy on Wheels" or "Grawp".