SEC launches investigation into Mamma.com shares

[TallTroll]

Full story here [weboptimiser.com]

[martinibuster]

Good catch. I wonder what raised eyebrows at the SEC.

[rycrostud]

Could it be the four-fold increase in share value in as many weeks ;p

[TallTroll]

Google news results here [news.google.com]

Some good additional insight

[edited by: TallTroll at 4:44 pm (utc) on April 7, 2004]

[eWhisper]

Could it be the four-fold increase in share value in as many weeks

That's what it sounded like to me when I read the article.

I didn't even realize they were a public company, just not that much news about them that I've heard.

[digitalv]

Does anyone even use Mamma.com?

Also wouldn't "the mother of all search engines" be faulty advertising? They're fairly new in the modern SE game (compared to the life of other established search engines) ... in fact, they're kind of a joke. Weren't they the ones who pioneered the whole "meta tag" basis for search results?

They don't supply content to well-established search engines. "Mother" implies creator or supplier ... how can they justify this clearly outrageous claim?

[4eyes]

I get good traffic from them on some sites, so someone is using them (not me though).

Manipulating results is very naughty.

Next thing you know they will be cloaking their stock prices;)

[IanKelley]

Mamma.com has been around forever.