Tunu.com

what's wrong with it?

[fischermx]

Hi,

Yet another search engine (PPC) I found on Google.
Actually, I found it in the ads sections, with the classical "search for <keyword> at tunu.com"

The parts that I don't get are these :
1.- Very high alexa rating, arround 8,000 somehow too much for a plain PPC with very few back links and it has a very steady growing last months.
2.- Invalid whois information, ooops!
I mean, why? That leads me to think there's something wrong in what they're doing.

So, I just wanted to point this, is there anything phishy here that I can't see?
I may be just a newbie ... but I want you just to share and hear other's opinions.

[pmkpmk]

Alexa information is more or less useless for sites below the top-500 (ok, let's say top-1000).

The "value" of the Alexa information is a constant topic in various threads here. A recent one is here: [webmasterworld.com...]

[fischermx]

Thanks, I know what Alexa is and how to cheat it.

The serious side of my question was about the missing whois information for an AdSense publisher and Adwords advertiser, it does not make sense at all for me.

[pmkpmk]

If you're sure that the whois is bogus, report it to Google. If you are an AdWords advertiser, try the contact form in the AdWords backend. That at least gets you an automated reply back :-)

Regarding Alexa: your rather new membership made me assume that you probably didn't now about the controversy around Alexa. No offence meant though.