Agriculture is definitely unsexy. You go to your local garden shop, and some wizened old guy tells you the best way to pot or mulch or whatever other verbs/adjectives are applicable to agriculture. But online, it’s a whole new game. I was very surprised to see sex being used to sell fruit trees. Check this [...]
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I saw these two very weird ads from AdSense. You gots to do better, Google!
Peddlers of gimmicky diet products are now creating fake blogs. These very similar blogs, http://www.aubreysdietblog.com and http://www.tracysweightloss.com may sound authentic but are really a spamvertisement. They are both similar in design and likely to be run by the same person. Whenever a new medium comes out that a low marginal cost, with no possibility of [...]
Many dermatologists have made small fortunes by deploying little machines from Cutera that remove body hair. These doctors charge up to $3,000 for a procedure that costs less than a tenth of that amount. The holy grail is to have a home based device that will let you zap off your own hair. There is [...]
The Internet is getting increasingly polluted with sleazy marketing. Between sites that contain prepackaged articles, sites that claim to be independent review sites but are really just lead-gen (lead generation) sites, a consumer has to be wary of what is out there. I heard a lot about another weight-loss gimmick called ‘FatLoss4Idiots’. So I went [...]
United E-mail leaves out critical information
Ramada Inn website has elementary problems
So here we are at cheaptickets.com, where Virgin Atlantic has a special offer going on. Virgin flies from some major airports in the USA to London. So, since this webpage is a special Virgin offer, when you click on Airport Codes, you would expect to see the cities that Virgin flies from right? But here [...]
On this webpage we see a flight from Washington DC to the desert kingdom of Dubai. The flight a direct flight taking over 12 hours. So why does United show a section towards the end of the page that says that “This flight may be operated by xxx airlines”? These airlines will not provide this [...]
I signed up for automatic payment on SoCal gas company and I received this reminder. Look at the area circled red. Instead of making me think whether I have to sign in and pay or whether it will be automatically taken out of my checking account, why not just tell me whether I am signed [...]
