Image via WikipediaSpeaking of God, Google sure is used for some interesting purposes. In the latest case, have you seen how savvy web saboteurs use scraper sites in a very bizarre manner, essentially stealing key words to fill their content? The purpose of these sites is to draw users to a site that has no real purpose other than a prayer that you'll click through because you couldn't find any useful information and line their pockets, albeit slowly, with Adsense. But since they're entirely automated, it's not like it's any sweat off their backs.
Why do I bring this up? Well, it's perfectly fine if people want to degrade the user's experience. I mean, most people know better than to click through or love up on these sites. However, when they do this, it's less than ideal.
Now, obviously a scraper site with the Headline "funds transfer alliance scam" isn't the worst thing that's ever happened because if anyone looks at the actual page they realize what it is or at least that it's some weird, automatically generated site. Or is it the worst thing that's ever happened? Riddle me this... I, along with several of my coworkers, have auto searches on key words related to our company. It's important to know if people are having problems. It's an early detection system. We want to be able to respond quickly. And, the disconcerting factor of all of this is that we get these all the time. It's amazing how many times your heart can drop getting a funds transfer alliance scam alert only to find out it's 1) a nigerian funds transfer scam 2) a scraper site.
Here's the question? Do you monitor your company daily and if so do you have any bizarre circumstances that happen over and over and if so what are they and do they have the potential to harm your business?
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