Comments on: SiteAdvisor Spyware Quiz http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2006/04/26/siteadvisor-spyware-quiz/ Robert Accettura's Personal Blog on Web Development and Tech Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:50:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: JustaThought http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2006/04/26/siteadvisor-spyware-quiz/#comment-58303 JustaThought Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:19:43 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2006/04/26/siteadvisor-spyware-quiz/#comment-58303 SiteAdvisor posts that it is review sites to Google. So if you have a site Called Foo.com, SiteAdvisor will post SiteAdvisor tests Foo.com for spyware, adware, spam, downloads, phishing, fraud, e-mail practices. Nice. That gives a wonderful first impression of your site, doesn't it. You can't see that your site tested clean until you visit site advisor. Most users will just go on to the next site in the search engine. And the only way to get that changed is to sign up for SiteAdvisors paid service for your site, at which point they will post your positive rating in the search engine too. Sounds like bully tactics to me. SiteAdvisor posts that it is review sites to Google. So if you have a site Called Foo.com, SiteAdvisor will post

SiteAdvisor tests Foo.com for spyware, adware, spam, downloads, phishing, fraud, e-mail practices.

Nice. That gives a wonderful first impression of your site, doesn’t it. You can’t see that your site tested clean until you visit site advisor. Most users will just go on to the next site in the search engine. And the only way to get that changed is to sign up for SiteAdvisors paid service for your site, at which point they will post your positive rating in the search engine too. Sounds like bully tactics to me.

]]> By: Robert Marshall http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2006/04/26/siteadvisor-spyware-quiz/#comment-13274 Robert Marshall Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:21:34 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2006/04/26/siteadvisor-spyware-quiz/#comment-13274 I failed on question 1, though in reality I probably wouldn't have trusted either site. ckd: That update icon is dead in 1.5. Its presence shows they're using 1.0.6 or earlier (there's no update notification for .7->.8). I failed on question 1, though in reality I probably wouldn’t have trusted either site.

ckd: That update icon is dead in 1.5. Its presence shows they’re using 1.0.6 or earlier (there’s no update notification for .7->.8).

]]> By: ckd http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2006/04/26/siteadvisor-spyware-quiz/#comment-13162 ckd Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:54:52 +0000 http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2006/04/26/siteadvisor-spyware-quiz/#comment-13162 Because no one notices that update button. None of the "none-techie" users i know ever updated any software on notice on their own, neither internetexplorer, nor windows, nor firefox. it has to be done automagically in the background with zero user intervention, otherwise it won't work at all. i'm glad it's planned for firefox 2.0. Because no one notices that update button. None of the “none-techie” users i know ever updated any software on notice on their own, neither internetexplorer, nor windows, nor firefox. it has to be done automagically in the background with zero user intervention, otherwise it won’t work at all. i’m glad it’s planned for firefox 2.0.

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