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• Outing Hitwise has consequences

  Posted Thursday, 13 September 2007 7:17 AM by mark

  Our blog post a week ago outing a Hitwise employee as involved in the Google results scam earlier this year has resulted in two anonymous and intimidating phone calls. One called told me I'd regret what I had written. Another told me I didn't go far enough. Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online dating, Google scam, online personals, click fraud

• Behind the Google search results scam

  Posted Friday, 7 September 2007 2:04 PM by mark

  As I blogged here in February, someone engaged in a scam which resulted in people searching for our 3loves free personals site being taken to Fairfax's RSVP site. At the time we discovered that the scam evolved out of an affiliate relationship entered Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: Google scam, seo, click fraud, dating scams, scammers, free dating, free personals

• Well done ACCC

  Posted Friday, 13 July 2007 10:56 PM by mark

  Kudos to the ACCC for their decision to take action against Google and the Trading Post over sponsored links which seek to pass off as something they are not. As I have blogged here and elsewhere , 3loves was a victim to a similar scam where the Fairfax Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: Google scam, online personals, click fraud

• The Fairfax / RSVP traffic scammer

  Posted Friday, 15 June 2007 7:17 AM by mark

  We now know the identity of the person behind the scam in Februay this year which targeted the 3loves keyword in an effort to drive traffic to RSVP. While we still don't understand why they targeted us - because we're so small compared to RSVP - uncoveriung Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: Google scam, click fraud

• Avoid online dating click fraud

  Posted Friday, 1 June 2007 1:21 PM by mark

  We hear all sorts of stories from people using online dating sites some real and some, we suspect, embellished. The most consistent story of frustration we hear is from those who have used sites where you pay per service. One person told me yesterday Read More... 0 Comments Filed under: online dating, online personals, click fraud