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unscrupley snooply


I’ve been receiving unsolicited email from Snooply, which must have gotten my information from GV. The message starts out “We’d like to partner with your organization”. Then if you reply it turns out they mean sign up for their affiliate program basically.  I just recognized it was Kaumil Patel that’s how i obviously knew.


pay for placement


Commercial Alert, a watchdog group founded by Ralph Nader, has filed a complaint regarding deceptive advertising with the FTC regarding PPC search sites. http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2…h_engines.html It figures they would assume people are not intelligent enough to know that they are ads (especially since a “cost to advertiser” is usually given next to each listing (though this pay for placement