"I certainly never write a review about a book I don't think worth reviewing, a flat-out bad book, unless it's an enormously fashionable bad book." --
says, John Gardner in Conversations with John Gardner
Quoted from 'Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations'     Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p.150. Available @ Amazon.com
Showing posts with label Business intelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Business intelligence. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Blog Review: My Highly Recommended Money Making Programs


The best part of the WWW / Internet / E-Commerce / Web Marketing is: (QUICK / EASY / SIMPLE / ONE-CLICK) Money Making Programs. That is the background. Here we are trying to understand one blog: My Highly Recommended Money Making Programs. And, the click forward from another site, brought me to this: Mailboxmoney and then found a link to another site, stating Want a free laptop?
Ans. Yes, why Not. The process, get, set go. I clicked on the site mentioned to get a free laptop: http://www.notebooks4free.com
Reading the terms and conditions (notebooks4free), it sounds all clear, and more importantly, telling me not to cheat, That's Great. I move on to see if this is a really real scam free deal. The simple catch is: I get 18 referrals. Period. Nope, then complex catch is, two stops, as explained:
  • Do my friends have to refer anyone?
    Only if they want their own free gift. To earn your
    free gift, your friends do not have to refer anyone.
  • How do I get a free gift?
    Our free gift program does not require you to pay any fees. You are only required to complete one offer from our sponsors, many of which are free...[read again: all items are NOT free]
    Googling for this site (notebooks4free), I found the following:
  • McAfee SiteAdvisor @ User Reviews (12): One said: "hp Hosts has classified this as a phishing site. Keep clear." [HP Host site]
  • Yahoo! Answers. One said: "The next morning.... I got 20 new spam messages and the spam folder took more than half an hour to load!"

    Note: The interesting (complimenting and supplementing the spree) is the: COMMENT POLICY @ My Highly Recommended Money Making Programs:

  • Comments on this blog are made DOFOLLOW for the Google Spiders.
  • Comments are moderated.
  • Spam will not be tolerated.
  • The design of the blog is cool, user-friendly, not overloaded with un-necessary content.
    Bottomline, nothing is free. So have happy holidays, and relax.

    See also on the same shelf:
  • I Want My Free Laptop Dot Com
  • The Top 10 Internet/Email Scams
  • A Pathfinder To Detect Spam and Forwarded Email Scams
  • WORK-AT-HOME JOBS: Internet Fraud or Gold Rush?
    Major Internet Fraud Investigation Reveals Shocking Truth you Must Know before Choosing a Work-At-Home Program
    "Are Online jobs the next big thing?
    The reality is that the hopes and dreams of honest people trying to make a better life for themselves are being preyed upon and shattered, day-in and day-out.
    A Shocking 81.4% of work at home sites were found to be Scams"
  • Tips for Avoiding Job Scams, from the Internet Fraud Watch
  • Google Adsense Appears Anywhere, Anyhow


    Thinking about competitive intelligence I have a moment's reflection. The question here is: How do businesses deal with competitors, and how they avoid each other? I found a search engine. In this context, isn't it against benchmarks of best practice in business management that Google Adsense should not be seen where Google is invisible. A competitor of Google, a less popular search engine, shows results from all other sources (READ AGAIN: it is minus Google) and has Google ads, the search engine is called Minus Google

    And, about this new born minus-google, a news headlines says: Finnish blogger amputates Google from Google: A road map for regulators of the future, By Cade Metz in San Francisco


    And, another question is: Why Does Google Allow Ads for AdSense Ready Websites?

    Search for something like "work from home", "Internet jobs" or "make money online" on Google and you’ll see a flood of ads promising easy money through the AdSense program.
    If you have ever tried AdSense on a site, you probably know how tough it is to make that first dollar but these ads, which are surprisingly served on the Google network itself, make things look so simple. Just order an "AdSense kit" for a few dollars and the money will start rolling in. continue reading: Digital Inspiration.


    See also: The Google-Yahoo! agreement and the future of internet advertising hearing before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, July 15, 2008.

      Any clue, or at least a response to this reflection?