Folks, one thing that I'd suggest people do is to inform the various search
engines... I would imagine that they'd be happy to blacklist the sites.
Best Regards,
Brett Rabideau
Periwinkle Communications LLC
http://www.toto.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Deb Kendall said:"
> Hi,
>
> After receiving your email tonight, I check one of my clients web site and
> found that someone is doing something like this to one of my clients. They
> also stole my clients/mine description and keywords to get them in the TOP
> page of the search engine. What really makes me mad is, that they didn't
> even bother to remove my clients "name" out of the keywords.
>
> Now they are rating #1 in the search, and it looks as if my client took
> their information.
>
> What can I do about this -- as my client does not know anything about the
> web and I handle everything for him.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> Deb Kendall
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 10:01 PM
> Subject: WC:>: Re: Stomping Assistance Required Please!!
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> We just came across a nasty little "bait and switch" scam run by
> an outift called InterGalaxy.com.
>
> What they are doing is taking lots of home pages from legit sites
> (including ours, which is how we discovered this), sticking them
> into a no frames section on their pages (to conceal them so you'll
> probably only notice it if you view the Document Source) and then
> submitting umpteen hundred so-called index pages to the search
> engines.
>
> This means that their link comes up when anything is searched for
> that exists on the legit home pages (in our case for our TCompress
> software). When you follow the link, you come up with
> InterGalaxy's home page and offering of hosting services.
>
> We only found out because this unfamiliar link came up in a
> TCompress search:
>
> http://www.cuisines.com/webhosting615.html
>
> We told them that they were breaching our copyright by this
> deception and demanded they remove our home page material from
> their site. They have complied -- that is, we're not in the document
> source for that link anymore, but some poor outfit in India is now
> there.
>
> I don't know if these guys are deliberately picking on businesses
> outside the US or if that's just coincidence, but I would really
> appreciate it if you could circulate this info (and check your own
> links!!) to make sure that as many people start complaining to and
> about these jerks as soon as possible.
>
> If you've got any time, by all means give them a call:
>
> For Pre-sales questions e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call: 1-
> 888-947-4678 For Technical Support e-mail
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call: 1-888-947-4678
>
> Don't bother if it's a chargeable number, but I figure the more noise
> made, the better.
>
> These "Web professionals" are going to give the rest of us a bad
> name. (Quite apart from the fact that they can't spell "sign" on their
> home page or that their copyright notice is 1996....)
>
> Tell your favourite search engines about this -- as it does nothing
> for their credibility either!
>
> I hope we can achieve some useful consumer action here, and
> advance thanks to anyone who makes the effort.
>
> Cheers,
> Vicki Hyde
>
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