Internet Marketing Bureau

Anyone heard of these guys

[ish]

Internet Marketing Bureau - Just had a call from these guys.

"3,000,000 UK downloads" of some software that works like the old RealName system.

£200 for 1 phrase for 1 year.

Anyone heard of them? Their web site isn't up to much.

[martinibuster]

No offense, but this has been discussed to death. Appears once or twice a week. You gotta download software for it to work.

"Oh! That's not good!"

"Yeah, that's like RealNames, and they went out of business because nobody searches from their toolbar."

This has really been discussed to death.

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Thank you for your reply Martini. However, a search for "Internet Marketing Bureau" brings back no useful results.

Any threads you can point me to. Thanks

ps. why is the 1st thread locked?

[martinibuster]

As a matter of fact, I keep a list of overly discussed threads, like "What's the best web host?"

The following is a list of discussions related to a variety of companies who are selling RealNames style keywords for the address bar, just like IMB.

Every company offers the same service, every company requires software to be downloaded, etc. A discussion for one is the same for all as they are all selling the same thing and there is no point in having the exact same discussion for each and every company.

I understand if you're a newbie and may not have heard of it, but this truly is an oft discussed topic that usually ends up like this. That's probably why the first thread was locked down.

9/2002
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10/2002
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1/2003
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2/2003
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3/2003
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This isn't by no means a comprehensive list. If you had done a site search for "address bar keywords" or something like that, you may have found these discussions on your own.

But sometimes the site search here may not be as comprehensive as a Google Toolbar site search.

:)

[edited by: martinibuster at 4:18 pm (utc) on Mar. 31, 2003]

[GodLikeLotus]

There are only 92 results in Google for "Internet Marketing Bureau" and none of these seem to be from Webmasterworld, I must have missed the topic coming up all the time.