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Stupidity from FT.com

June 12, 2005

Check this out. You’re not gonna believe this one.

Go to this article at FT.com (Financial Times). Look to the left menu under Partner sites. Now, right below “Investors Chronicle” use your mouse to highlight the white area.

See anything interesting?

Stupid and sad. Unfreakingbelievable. Also hilarious. This is not just some doofus putting up websites trying to get a PageRank to sell invisible links to make a few dollars (not that that is respectable – it’s not), this is the freaking FINANCIAL TIMES. FT.com has a Google PageRank of 8. They rank 979 in Alexa. (Yeah, yeah… I know. I used PR and Alexa as barometers. lol But, hey… they have meaning.). If I do that, I’m Google banned for what… 8 to life? I doubt they’ll get that. But, it is definitely a bit embarrassing. The person who made that decision has something coming.

Via Jeremy Zawodny.

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4 Responses to “Stupidity from FT.com”

  1. June 13th, 2005 at 11:26 am Stephan Segraves says:

    I just see a link to moneysupermarket.com… Maybe they removed it?

  2. June 13th, 2005 at 11:40 am Patrick (@iFroggy) says:

    They changed it. ;) That link used to be in white text so that you couldn’t see it.

  3. June 13th, 2005 at 2:20 pm Keith McLaughlin says:

    Btw Patrick, I think the word you were looking for was stupidity not stupity <grin>

  4. June 13th, 2005 at 3:06 pm Patrick (@iFroggy) says:

    Ah, yes. Typos happen. Fixed, thanks.

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