Google Filing Suits Over Bissops!!
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Since January 2009 supposedly. All five of those landers they showed in the court documents were older and used very early in the year.
that lander was fucking great...lol@people blaming the person who made the page.
what idiot thinks you can make 400 dollars a day doing nothing. GTFO. :food-smiley-002:
what idiot thinks you can make 400 dollars a day doing nothing. GTFO. :food-smiley-002:
aren't they dated 11/30 or 12/1 from what I read?
am I wrong to assume those were recently compiled/downloaded/viewed from those dates?
Ah I see, I assumed that it was just when they compiled the data but it looks like you are right. I looked back on a couple of traffic/referral tools and saw traffic on some of these domains back in February and March so they've been running for a while regardless of when that screenshot was taken.
Hm, guess it's not coincidence that they took that screenshot on the day that the FTC rules became effective... Double whammy: Google and FTC coming after people.
The funniest part about that lander, is when I scrolled down and saw a teeth ad, figured I'd peep their lander...
Same lander, just pushing teeth products.
that was my thinking as well given the exact dates, however from the looks of that given there is only one named defendent (versus Harpo with many) and given the list of domains that the advertiser used my *opinion* on it is that their first priority is to go after those using their logo and trademark on the order pages. I think this is backed up (the confusion argument) by all of the complaints that G received which are about a dozen or more of the exbhibits in the filing and are all centered around billing practices and/or not receiving any product.
Login to Maxbounty and guess what literally the latest offer on the network is:
Campaign 2729: Google Easy Street - Free Trial : Biz Op
Landing Page (no its not an aff link)
https://secure2.securesiteorders.net/googes/080409/
They are using a Google logo although its in their own gay font style and color shading so i don't know if counts...
Ironically they have the as seen on CNN, MSNBC etc...
Trademarks are actually on the style and coloring of the mark in this case the letters G O O G L E, its not the word itself, so if they arent using the logo i believe its actually legit to use the word.
Also the as seen on CNN, MSNBC, etc... may actually be true. You can easily use logos such as the USA Today by buying classified ad space in the newspaper. Once your ad appears in the USA Today it has been seen there.
Marketing and lying is sometimes a very thin line. Most people see as seen in and assume something that may not be true. Unfortunately the few who cross over the line in to lying are what causes this space to continue to see lawsuits against it.
If anyone learns anything from all of these cases it should be to be better marketers and not liars, Google is not hiring, but working WITH google is accurate. Also most of the "flogs" are true, arent they? As an affiliate marketer you do make $400 or whatever the number is per day/week/month so your testimonial is probably the realest of all the flogs, the only problem is if you didnt actually use the product in question because you swap out links for the higher paying offers without testing the offers out.
Ill probably get flamed for half of my comments because everyone has their own opinion i just wanted to share what my personal opinion of it all was. Lawsuits sound scary and make for big drama, but they never pan out to the speculation on WF, and are usually resolved quietly but over a long period of time.
Just like Oprah, Myspace, Facebook, and others Google had to put their foot down. Hopefully these suits will teach us all to be better marketers.
Yep, that's spot on. They never say Defendants = Infringing Domain Names in any part of it.
My opinion is that if they do go after affiliates they are going to go after the ones with the landing pages that are in the exhibits. That way they only have to prove these 3 landing pages as bad one time and then they can say here's the exact same one from Does 1-50. Bam, it's got everyone in one swoop.
Another tactic they could be using is Google Adwords. They know what the landing pages are, the names on the credit cards, etc. So it's all lined up for them... Just speculatin'
The irony in the as seen on CNN etc. is if someone actually went to one of those news sites before buying and searched for google biz ops they would see ass loads of scam and lawsuit articles.
I figured they could get away with the Google image because its not a direct rip-off... And they are not using the splog lander... However I would not be surprised if a lot of these guys have to tighten up on things after Google gets done raping.
I like to follow cops and inject myself into their investigations. Not ambulances.
How is a fake blog one thing and fake article another? Maybe its just me but they both seem to be basically the same.
