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“January 1 TCP/IP” scam

When you visit google.com today, there is a new doodle:

When you click the link, it queries “January 1 tcp/ip“, which links to a Digg story about today being the 25th birthday of TCP/IP.

The funny thing is, under this story is a flurry of Adsense scams.

As soon as the doodle went up, people created content related to that search query. The scammers are using every SEO trick they can to get high Google rankings.

The page listed above even has an SEOey URL: http://january-1-tcp-ip-123.blogspot.com. I wonder how much money these people will make from this scam today?

This entry was written by me, posted on January 1, 2008 at 11:20 am, filed under Advertising, Bad, Blogging, Competition, Controversy, Ethics, Google, History, Holidays, Ideas, Internet, Scam and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

One Comment

  1. Semul
    Posted January 1, 2008 at 2:34 pm | Permalink

    Very clever! but my question is whow did they know what the doodle was going to be??

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