Monday, October 12, 2009

A Fake Church Site

Which key words fool you? I was doing a search for family fun and was drawn to this fake by the following search result :

Play fun family games

Sponsored by:abundantlivingfamilychurch.com

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At first glance, I thought it's an odd set up for a church site. ..

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When I clicked on the links, I discovered its true religion: Search Engines Are Us!  This site is a glorified search engine with links leading to sites that pay it for advertising. It has a really nice look compared to most.  The links that I checked are all family friendly and many are quite useful. If they had Canadian results, I might  book mark it for use. But come on! Masquerading as a church?! That's really in bad taste! I wonder if they are getting tax write-offs as a church as well? Hmmm...I could set  up a church site...After all I do have that  free certificate showing I am a minister. Nah! I think my conscience is too strong for me sometimes,

 

See it yourself: http://abundantlivingfamilychurch.com/

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Daily News & More? Nah- It's an ad

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This fabulous fake  has some working links in the top right hand corner that appear to lead to real news, but only produce and splash page Mock headlines along the top in link colours, underlined are non functioning, but click a real link & return to the page and all links on the page as well as the "headlines" change to the visited link colour.

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The only real link to news is contained in the accuweather widget on the page. (referred to in the html as a breadcrumb)

 

 

imageThe creator of this elaborate has included "ads" as well as "comments"

The piece d'rĂ©sistance lies in at the  bottom of this elaborate phony.

 

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Here a very real disclaimer and realistic link categories mimic a real news site. Click any link at all and surprise ! Is this  really the recipe section? Click Here to see the HTML behind this link list)

image Kudos to you!  I really love a Fabulous Fake!

See this Fab Fake Here!