Scott Castaline wrote: > Robert Holtzman wrote: >> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Mike Dawe wrote: >> >> ...........snip............. >> >>> >>> I have come across another, even more convincing scam. It is also >>> another *google* sponsored link. >>> >>> Type openoffice into Google's search engine and you will get both >>> the filechampion.com scam and this (both are at the top of the >>> first page): >>> <http://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=CNltl38KsSfveFZTgkAWAsJnyCcy2gEXeqLroCvbe2DwIABACKAJQvd675Pv_____AWCl-JGAkAGgAZ6w7fYDyAEBqQIZlbzVMP2pPqoEE0_Qa7WsKtVCCYK1SRZpoZWuf48&sig=AGiWqtzJxx2FO-3G1kuXvHLW_cqOtiHKDg&q=http://openoffice.org-2009.com/index.asp%3Faff%3D101%26camp%3Dgg_oo_au%26se%3Dgoogle> >>> >>> Sorry for the long link - it takes you to this evil scam page: >>> <http://openoffice.org-2009.com/index.asp?aff=101&camp=gg_oo_au&se=google> >>> >>> This one has already picked up that I'm in Australia (so it can >>> charge me for OpenOffice in Aussie dollars I guess). >> >> .............snip........... >> >> I stopped using Google when they dropped their pants and bent over >> for the Chinese government. I use a search engine called Icerocket. >> When I enter "openoffice" or "open office" I don't get the scam >> sites at all. Just legitimate Ooo sites or sites linking to them >> with no mention of payment. No "sponsored" links. Yet another reason >> not to use Google. > I just tried a search in parallel for OOo in both icerocket (selecting > the web search option) and google. The results page were identical > line for line at least the first page was. I do like the look and > feel and selective search filtering by options, whereas a google > search can be overwhelming in that it includes everything.
I didn't get the great results mentioned here with icerocket so did a little checking. It's actually a blog search engine; and will be changing its name soon too. Makes sense now, what it found. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
