VALENCIA,
Calif. - May 11, 2000 /BUSINESS WIRE/
Search
Engine Expert, Web Guerrilla, Exposes 'Pagejacking' Scandal Involving Barnes &
Noble and eToys
- While working to improve a client's ranking,
search engine specialist Greg Boser of Web Guerrilla discovered a major scam: a
company known as Green Flash Systems LLC, of San Diego, had copied hundreds of
web pages and then submitted them to major search engines on behalf of several
high-profile Internet companies, including eToys and Barnes & Noble. The
scam worked like this: Green Flash located pages, with top search engine
rankings, that also contained keyword phrases that were relevant to the
businesses of its clients. Then, rather than reverse-engineer similar
listings, Green Flash simply copied the pages to its server and used a cloaking
system to deliver the stolen pages to Internet search engines. Visitors,
clicking on the search engine listings created by the stolen pages, were then
diverted to the web sites of Green Flash's clients. Boser discovered the
scheme while checking rankings for his client,
Data Recovery Group, of San
Leandro, California.
Using legal and ethical means, Boser had achieved the #1 ranking for
the term "data recovery" in several search engines. Upon discovery of
the competitor's listing, after conducting an exact search for "Data
Recovery Group," he became suspicious. Using Alta Vista's Babelfish
language translator, he was able to retrieve the stolen page. As Boser
researched more domains hosted by Green Flash, he found hundreds of additional
pages that appeared to have been taken without permission, from web sites that
ranged from personal home pages to high-profile sites such as Disney, CNET and
the Discovery Channel. "The wronged companies need to know that their
pages have been stolen--and the companies that benefited need to know they are
unwitting accomplices to a crime," Boser said. -
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Blue Bell, Pa.
and Jenkintown, Pa., May 10, 2000 -- /Unisys/
Unisys
Partners With ICG Commerce to Deliver e-Procurement Services for Bottom-Line
Results
- Unisys Corporation and
ICG Commerce -- the world's first
comprehensive online procurement service for businesses -- announced today a
five-year, preferred partnership agreement. Under the agreement, Unisys will be
a preferred systems integrator for ICG Commerce customers, and ICG Commerce will
provide comprehensive procurement services to Unisys as well as to Unisys
clients on a global basis. As a result, Unisys clients worldwide can realize
significant savings through more efficient, Web-based e-procurement practices.
According to industry analysts, substantial dollars each year are
wasted on inefficient procurement practices -- with about 40 percent of all
business purchases not requiring competitive bids. As part of Unisys and ICG
Commerce's total e-procurement approach, Unisys clients can utilize ICG
Commerce's value-add services to obtain cost savings through its negotiated
high-volume agreements with world-class suppliers. Clients also can reduce costs
through more efficient Internet-based procurement practices--transacted and
managed by ICG Commerce--as well as benefit from dedicated customer support,
auction of surplus goods and spot buying all via the Internet.
As part of the agreement, Unisys will provide project management,
solution integration and customer support to clients implementing the ICG
Commerce solution.
London May 10 -
RedEye International
The UK Data Protection Act -
Implications for Direct Marketers and Advertisers and The Value of Online
Audiences vs Offline Audiences - an invitation.
- RedEye
International, the UK's leading software developer for Internet marketing, site
effectiveness and management solutions, invites you to its popular industry
discussion forum. This month's topic: "The Data Protection Act -
Implications for Direct Marketers and Advertisers and The Value of Online
Audiences vs Offline Audiences"
DATE: Thursday 25th May
LOCATION:
Chez Gerard, 9 Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8YP (nearest tube: Waterloo)
TIME: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
London, 9 May
2000 /The Source/
Anywhereyougo.com Launches
First Independent Wireless Internet Lab and Online WAP Application Testing
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AnywhereYouGo.com, the world's
largest independent community of wireless developers, today announced the
opening of the first independent lab to test WAP applications across multiple
devices and gateways. The Wireless Internet Lab provides developers and IT
managers with an extensive range of testing and analysis services, which will
accelerate the successful deployment of new WAP applications. At the same
time, AnywhereYouGo.com is releasing the most comprehensive wireless application
testing tool available online. Developed by AnywhereYouGo.com and available
exclusively on the site, this tool enables developers to test WAP sites online
for the first time.
Tests just completed by AnywhereYouGo.com, using this new testing tool
across 50 WAP sites, revealed that 28% had errors that were serious enough to
prevent users from viewing pages and completing transactions. Sites tested
covered a range of companies, from established global enterprises to new WAP
ventures.
"The services we're launching today - both lab-based and online -
respond to the critical industry-wide need for independent testing," said
Lee Wright, CEO of AnywhereYouGo.com. "Developers at systems integrators,
agencies, and new WAP start-ups have repeatedly told us about the problems they
face moving from development to deployment, only to find that the application's
performance falls short of expectations. The Wireless Internet Lab and new
online testing provide developers and IT managers with the assurance that, when
deployed, their applications will live up to their expectations. This directly
contributes to the success of WAP and the wireless industry as a whole."
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