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I'm at a loss as to what to do. I've put in a complaint to Google, but I can't find an easy method to do this with any of the other major search engines. I shudder to think how much traffic we are losing to this company through customer confusion. I highly doubt a letter direct to this company would do any good - I'm sure they realize what they are doing is illegal, as they have tried so hard to hide it. It's not just us they are doing this to either - every one of their competitors has been targetted in this manner.
Any suggestions?
they are using a program that locks outsiders out of the source code
they just can't do that... there is no way that can be done
sticky me the url if you would, Ally_Cat?
What's up with that?
1 - they use a tonne of blank space to try to fool people... look in the bottom right - it's got the code there
2 - copied and pasted code into editor, stripped the whitespace and /n/n
3 - now we can see the code... and remember search engines can't read his garbled code... so anything here must be in plain text - or it won't be readable:
<Page protected by *********>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name="description" content="blah blah..">
<meta name="keywords" content="blah blah">
<title>blah blah</title>
If your trademark is being used - then it will be within THIS text...
[as for getting the source code, did that just earlier for fun - but that wouldn't be fair for the poor misguided purchasers of weblockpro if i posted how here!]
<edit>Because we are dealing with potential trademark violations, I'll post how to read them </edit>
make a new .html file with this in it:
<script language=javascript>_dw=document.write;
function _x(s){s=unescape(s);t=Array();t[0]="";j=0;for (i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {t[j]+=String.fromCharCode(s.charCodeAt(i) + (i%2==0? 1 : -1));if((i+1)%300==0){j++;t[j]="";}}document.write=_dw;u="";for(i=0; i<t.length; i++) {u+=t[i];}document.write("<plaintext>"+u);u="";t=Array();_dw=document.write;}
second site is an online tool to decode weblockpro pages
that's got to be the most amusing thing i've read all day! was actually pondering writing my own tool - now i guess there's no need.
weblockpro is really misleading customers however because it says 1) that content is encrypted (it is not - it is encoded) and 2) it fails to mention that you will never rank highly in primarily content-based e.g. google search engines due to the engine having pretty much zero content to deal with.
if i was going to do source hiding i'd at least integrate cloaking for SE, an encoding algorithm relying on loading a value from a seperate server, which would be changed so it would only be valid once for that page, etc. and i'd still not feel the need to charge the massive amounts that weblockpro do!
also just found some interesting links in first results of google search...;)
