[thelist] RE: IE search bar

[Andrew Clover]

Marc Seyon wrote <evoltlist at delime.com>:

> It was disconcerting seeing the number of "shady" sites with long 
> hyphenated urls showing up in google's results

Yeah, depressing isn't it. Everything collapses under abuse. Sometimes I 
wonder if it wouldn't be best just to ban affiliate marketing full stop...

> I certainly wondered how many were legit and how many were peddling
> misinformation.

Most of them don't bother to change the details, so that's not so much 
of a problem. They just cut'n'paste then add their own adverts.

Even the 'white hats' do it to some extent. I don't mind so much if it's 
eg. PestPatrol or Bazooka providing information on things they target, 
but it's a shame when it's perverted into promoting crap like *Nuker.

> What's your site? The one in your sig?

Yep! Fares very variably against the scammers in Google's search 
results, for reasons I can't quite work out. Something funny going on there.

> FWIW the only spyware *tools* I'd trust are ad-aware and spybot s&d and 
> possibly hijack-this.

These are indeed good tools. There are others, but picking out the 
trustable commercial vendors from a sea of black hats is getting 
increasingly difficult. Must update my site/lists on this...

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Andrew Clover
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