Ordinary Gweilo

Shaky seems to caught asiaxpat.com creating fake referrals to his site (if you don’t understand this and wish to do so, follow the link from Shaky’s post for an explanation). You may recall that this is the very same website that starting sending Phil spam emails within hours of getting his email address. These guys are obviously a bit desperate!

I suppose it’s understandable – most Internet sites want to be visible, and it’s vital for commercial sites, so they often go to considerable lengths to get links and a high ranking on Google, and some resort to underhand means to achieve this. However understandable it may be, I certainly don’t feel well disposed towards an organization that behaves in this way.

Even weirder is the strange story of someone who took the whole Batgung website, changed the names of the authors, and published it otherwise unchanged apart from the different links – to sites they presumably wished to promote.

I think it was Simon who asked me how I would feel if someone ‘stole’ my website, but I never actually imagined that anyone would bother to do something like that. However, it seems I was wrong – anything is possible on the Internet!