Online Store to Sue Blogger Over Google Ranking? 365
An anonymous reader writes "An online business owner is threatening to sue blog owner Dean Hunt (DeanHunt.com) because he is upset that the blog owner is doing better than his business in the Google search rankings. After an initial threat, Dean received a follow-up threatening to take legal action against him. So far Dean has elected not to name and shame this business owner."
Re:please counter-sue (Score:5, Funny)
Brilliant!
News in Brief: Slashdot assists in bogus claim! (Score:2, Funny)
Reminds me of.... (Score:5, Funny)
Fighting on the internet is like the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.
While not necessarily the most tactful of quotes, it does ring true.
Re:Even easier. (Score:5, Funny)
I'd like to meet this Sally.
Re:The blogger's problem? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm sorry, sir, but we won't be needing you and your fancy rational thinking on the jury. Have a nice day!
My response (Score:5, Funny)
Since your business [edited].com is doing rather well and top ranking is important to your business. Please transfer $[edited] in U.S. dollars to this [edited] account. When that happens I will gladly remove any and all references to [edited].com.
Thanks and bite me
Tuttle Award nominee (Score:5, Funny)
See Misconfigured Webserver, Threats to Call FBI [slashdot.org].
Re:Even easier. (Score:5, Funny)
No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.
Re:I'm Still Waiting To Be Extorted... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:THIS IS FAKE, HE MADE THIS UP! PLEASE READ. (Score:3, Funny)
Are you seriously arguing that the two don't coincide because the possibly fictitious story has a different timeline than his proclamation that he was going to start a fictitious story?
Um...do you know what fiction is?
Re:Here's my secret (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Perhaps Its the Lawyer (Score:3, Funny)
I have encountered many lawyers. Hence
Re:Even easier. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ranking.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ranking.... (Score:4, Funny)
Didn't you hear the warnings about hair growing on the bottom of your mouse if you do that too often?
search term (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Why is this even on Slashdot? (Score:3, Funny)
Presuming Mr. [edited] actually contacted Google as he said he did, he has admitted to Google that he DOES want to fiddle with his ratings. And thus I'm sure Google will give Mr. [edited] the exact amount of attention he deserves.
Re:He is in the SEO biz, and this is a viral campa (Score:5, Funny)
An entry for wicktionary:
deanhunt
It looks like this is turning into a cautionary tale for would-be advertising gurus: just becoming widely known is not enough; you need to very much avoid becoming widely known as a laughingstock.
Re:Even the stupidest lawyers aren't stupid enough (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, I think he want the email scanned for bit potential.
It is a well-known fact (among experts at least) that the standard deviation of the bit potential is higher than usual in faked emails. In a normal email, the 0s usually varies between -0.05 and +0.05 and the 1s between 0.95 and 1.05.
In a faked email created with a cheap falsification program, it is not unusual to see variation up to +/- 0.3 from the nominal value.
Using military software it is possible to get very close to the bit variation of a genuine email, but Mr. Hunt probably does not have access to such software. I believe I would know if he had.
Re:Mod Parent DOWN (Score:5, Funny)
How about these?
asshole [deanhunt.com]
shithead [deanhunt.com]