Comments on: White-texting Google

By: Edward Martins

Edward Martins — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:14:24 +0000

Oh yeah, and they are now dabbling in blog spamming too: http://calendar488.curlingcalendar.org/oxcyon.html. Cool..

By: Edward Martins

Edward Martins — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:10:19 +0000

You would not be the first blog to be comment spammed by Oxcyon. A quick search for them shows that they were even blasted a while ago for posing as a Gartner analyst with major tech pubs (http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39153609,00.htm). What’s amazing to me is that they continue to do this kind of thing, even as it becomes clear how transparent and ineffective it is…

By: david

david — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:28:41 +0000

*** The previous comment comes from someone with an e-mail address (not published) in the dkarana.com domain, which is not registered, and a URL in the kdarana.com domain, which is also not registered. It also looks an awful lot like an ad for Oxcyon. Instead of deleting it, I thought it would be worthwhile to leave it here as an exhibit in the discussion.

The original poster is welcome to submit more information to show that my suspicions are unjustified, and that Oxcyon hasn’t added comment-spam to their promotion toolbox, now that Google has caught on to the white texting.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:37:21 +0000

I found Oxcyon through a google search…looking for content management, and ended up contracting with them for
their software Centralpoint…..very good CMS Platform. I think their white texting worked quite well…and am personally
glad they did that, otherwise I wouldnt have found them.

By: barrie ontario business card printing

barrie ontario business card printing — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:01:06 +0000

They say using CSS worked better. Does it really I don’t know. I actually came across a few sites like this myself recently for a local company in Canada. I was amazed a company with there standing would do such a thing.

By: maS

maS — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:02:35 +0000

Oh, my goodness! Hidden text? [color=white]The end of the world is nigh![/color]

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:04:54 +0000

Isn’t that what intelligent site promotion is all about…trying to get the highest ranking in line with competing services and products.
Since this technology does in fact offer an intelligent alternative to the competing product being searched…wouldn’t someone surfing the internet
want to actually know about it? I know our company did.

I would hardly liken this companies marketing efforts to that of a porn site, and if what you are suggesting is that only porn sites know how to successfully market their websites to potential customers…more power to them. I would have to point out that the results of
this search were highly relevant as it is an alternative and competing product to the one being searched in the first place…and
was not given as a results for the search of ’sunglasses’ or ‘dog food’…which would give you some ground to stand on.

Since you are a blogger, you would have to admit that promotion of information to those that need it, or that might actually
help them, increasing competition and options to consumers would be a good thing, and not a bad thing as Blogs are designed to inform those interested in similar or related items. I know for our business not only did the search results in fact provide formal introduction to a viable alternative, but also proved the technology very competant relative to portal promotion friendliness and capabilities which is more than we can say for our former Stellent platform…which had greater difficulty.

Long live free enterprise…it is what makes America great.