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accident at Bunny Bucket 6-Jan-2009 At 11:30:13 AM deadpoint

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I have just poked around a bit on the teles web site and found that when you click on
the link from this forum to the article it places a referer url of www.chockstone.com with
the forum from where the link has placed. This means they can easily track from where
the people visiting their news site came from. Lucus's posting of a link to the AAR made
it simple to scrape up some more news.

Insidious isn't it? plus the use of google syndication and google adsense makes them
able to tailor those ads on the right hand side. I would not be surprised of the advertisers
pay per page view fee plus a click through fee as well. It also allows them to tailor the
style of news they report vs the amount of page views and click through's the receive. ie
not so interesting news won't receive any effort, even more insidious is the possibility
that newspapers could make postings to forums and blogs to put a start the whole
process in the first place.

Several of the readers comments could to be fabricated, check the some of names in a
google search and see what you find. In general they appear to be incite comment to
sucker more page views and click through's. Nasty business indeed.

I have drawn their attention to this but my comments have been deemed unsuitable for
publishing...just out of interest how many people made reader comments on the article?
11 have so far been deemed suitable??