OnlineMarketer.com » GOOG http://www.onlinemarketer.com Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:44:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Google Bashing for Traffic http://www.onlinemarketer.com/google-bashing-for-the-sake-of-it/ http://www.onlinemarketer.com/google-bashing-for-the-sake-of-it/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:56:38 +0000 jcoronella http://www.onlinemarketer.com/?p=72 Google is slowly replacing Microsoft as the company people love to hate. While I may have a love-hate relationship with Google myself, sometimes it really irks me when mainstream media outlets do it. [editors note: we are not main stream, and with zero readership, hardly an outlet]

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Webroot-Says-Hackers-Exploit-Google-Trends-With-Malware/

This article from eWeek (again, I use mainstream loosely) explains how hackers use Google Trends to figure out what is a timely news article people might search for, then monopolize on the search terms by writing fake blogs.

Is there any reason to mention Google in this article, other than making it worth reading? You could replace “google trends” with “reading the newspaper” and it’s just as plausible. The mere mention of Google is the only reason this article is interesting. Get a clue eWeek.

Oh wait… they have one. They write an article about Google, put GOOG in it and it comes up during a google finance search… remind me to….

This post originated at the Online Marketer blog, home to marketing consultant John Coronella.

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