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Re: what the? From David at Corisande on 2 Feb '99 replying to Re: what the? posted by Andrew >it looks like they copies yahoo's page, moved their link to the top, added some more of their own and them put the page up on their own site. > >I think what their trying to do is , when THAT page comes up in a search engine (AV, IS or EX) it looks like a Yahoo page. so someone doing a search, say on Infoseek will come up with a result that appears to be a Yahoo page and go there thinking there'sw credability. > >be interesting to see what Yahoo thinks about it :-) > >shhhhhhhh Yes, if you click on "page info" you will see the page was "last modified" on 4th November 1998. I know Yahoo are slow, but I think they (probably) update their data base more often than that David

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>>it looks like they copies yahoo's page, moved their link to the top, added some more of their own and them put the page up on their own site. >> >>I think what their trying to do is , when THAT page comes up in a search engine (AV, IS or EX) it looks like a Yahoo page. so someone doing a search, say on Infoseek will come up with a result that appears to be a Yahoo page and go there thinking there'sw credability. >> >>be interesting to see what Yahoo thinks about it :-) >> >>shhhhhhhh > >Yes, if you click on "page info" you will see the page was "last modified" on 4th November 1998. I know Yahoo are slow, but I think they (probably) update their data base more often than that > >David