[WEB4LIB] Re: "Hijacking" Websites

Dan Robinson Indexing Services drobinson at info.hwwilson.com
Thu Sep 23 16:53:49 EDT 1999


But the article refers to this method as 'hijacking' too. It's 
really misdirection, but the user doesn't make the distinction. 

dan
drobinson at hwwilson.com

On 23 Sep 99 at 12:39, Michael Sauers wrote:

> > A fourth way, give your page an innocuous name and an alias server
> > name, and load it with everyday terms in the meta field.  Let it come
> > up high on the search engine, then do your redirection to the real
> > pages.
> 
> This wouldn't really be a hijacking though. Just misrepresentation. You
> haven't done anything to an actual site to change it.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Michael Sauers, Internet Trainer


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