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Ah-ha spamdexing Ink / AOL?

Am I losin' my marbles? What else can it be?

         

bigjohnt

11:23 pm on Mar 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I just did a search over at aolsearch.aol.com, and at aol.com

At aolsearch.aol.com a search for "merchant account" without the " of course, yields at position #4 under matching sites:

merchant account
[partner.ah-ha.com...]

A preloaded query from Ah-ha????

A search at Aol.com shows the same listing on the second page.

This amazes me. Any ideas contrary to my own conclusion?

EliteWeb

11:25 pm on Mar 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Those type of queries happen it looks because a search engine running ah-ha was indexed. ah-ha results show up on many search engines and often offer banner advertisement as well as listings.

Brett_Tabke

5:56 pm on Mar 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

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They could also be in index connect where you can feed xml documents to ink.

bigjohnt

11:32 pm on Mar 12, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Why would Ink allow Ah-ha to feed redirect pages into its system? Surely this is not good news for Ink partners, taking top ranking listings, and redirecting them to Ah-ha?
AOL has a deal with OV, and its own directory <ODP>, and Ink. But the user is headed off to Ah-ha?
Both seem to be plausible answers, but ...my head is spinning. I guess I just don't get it.