Pet Peeve

My Pet Piv....time wasted....
This is one of my personal pet peeve.....I go to the search engines looking for a particular item or information and I have to go through lots of websites before I finally come across one that is actually what it says it is. What I get most of the time are websites displaying only paid links of marginal relevance. I have spent countless hours looking for something in the search engines which makes the Web feel like a hall of mirrors. What was promised in the search listing should be generally the same as what someone gets when they arrive at the page, if not then it is deceptive advertising .I see alot of this in the major search engines.Apparently this is called cloaking and it is designed to achieve a higher placement or prominence of a website in the search engines than the content delivered to searchers would achieve..

The major search engines are aware of this practice. Search Engines stay in business based on their offering of relevant search results. Cloaking prevents them from seeing the same page as the user- this undermines their ability to produce relevant search results. Delivering content designed to influence a search engine's rankings to an engine spider is officially called spam. The search engines are becoming more savvy at detecting Cloaking. It can result in permanent banning. So you have to start all over with a new URL.The FTC found that cloaking can lead to deceptive advertisements appearing in search results.Obviously no consideration is given to wasting the customers time.I know the justification for this is trying to get the customer to their website.....here is something to ponder..if the merchant lies to me from the beginning why would I trust them or buy from them????trust between the customer and merchant is what will make the sale and keep the customer coming back... not slick,misleading advertising...

Cluttered Websites...everything but the kitchen sink......
Website owners need to keep their websites clutter free and easy to read and navigate.Successful websites are pleasant on the eye and give you all the information you need when you need it.Space is cheap on the internet but it still does not stop people from trying to cram hugh amounts of information onto a single page.They feel that they have to fill every bit of available space.White space is good!!!!Nothing annoys me more than having to sit through those dull intro pages and pop up ads before getting to any useful information.Time is valuable to internet users, don’t squander it and annoy them with designer garbage.

I have talked to countless average people and these things are high on their list of problems with the internet.No one wants to navigate through all of the clutter on most of these websites.I have to admit when I am looking for something on the web if I click on a website and it is cluttered and not easy to read I will quickly leave that site and find one that is easy for me to read and navigate....I am very sure others do the same....something else to ponder......

Internet Browsing....Proceed at your own RISK!!!!!
Recently I clicked on several Michael Jackson video websites using the search engines.......
May he rest in Peace.....
What came up shocked me....My computer was immediately being scanned.I quickly tried to cancel out of this and that did not work so I closed the browser.The server that is hosting the website has been hacked to where, when you go to the website from a search page, you are redirected to a malicious URL.So what is the benefit of tricking people? The main reason is money.When unsuspecting people click on what seems like an innocent URL, their computer system could be infected with malware (malicious software). This software could take complete control of your computer or use it to display revenue generating adware.Scammers are using shock value to scare the customer into thinking something is wrong with their computer.

Which countries in the world are responsible for harboring the greatest number of malicious domains? At least two popular web browsers are using Google Safe Browsing to warn users about phishing sites and other malwares: Firefox and Chrome.The cybercriminals have figured this out, so they are using some new and interesting techniques that can easily bypasses the Safe Browsing mechanism. One of them is using URL shortening and redirection services.The owners of these short url services have been notified of this problem and they have begun to take action against these cybercriminals .

Be warned that users looking for information related to help with Office products on Microsoft’s own site are being targeted.Studies show that on average of 50% of malicious URLs identified change monthly. The rates pose a challenge to blacklisting services as well as a risk to end users.Frequent scans of the web are required to obtain a good up-to-date view of the threat .Lucky for me I never keep personal information on my computer...I have not reached that level of trust with the internet yet.Moral of this story..be very careful which websites you click on...and if you find yourself in this situation just close your browser as quickly as you can and pray that no harm has come to your computer or software.It probably will not hurt to run a spyware virus scan if you have one on your computer...
UPDATE:
SEARCH ENGINES are saturated with these spyware virus scan websites including videos and images.


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