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March 2, 2006

Google supplemental screw up

So Peter sent me a somewhat frantic e-mail, after noticing the newer Google results have supplemental’ed his forums - and Platinax, too.
Apparently, 3 of the key UK business forums had been hit, so I posted about it.
Google results are pretty appalling in the Longtail - home of the supplemental index - at present.
While researching dropshipping […]



March 1, 2006

Passive information as a marketing tool

I nearly stepped into another potential libel issue recently - critical comments I posted about the Transcendental Meditation movement over 2 years ago on the comparative religion forums were revived and called out as slander by a member.
Having already learned my lesson on dealings with Platinax, I removed the original comment and set out a […]





Legal action as amarketing tool

There’s discussion on the chronicles network about the Dan Brown lawsuit over plagiarism claims.
The simple basis is that the authors of a book - Holy Blood, Holy Grail, published by Random House - are taking Dan Brown to court over his book - the Da Vinci Code, published by Random House.
They claim that he stole […]



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