Comments on: Yahoo Turns on SearchScan Security Feature http://www.straightupsearch.com/archives/2008/05/yahoo_turns_on.html Just another Oneupweb Blogs weblog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:04:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jim Buckley http://www.straightupsearch.com/archives/2008/05/yahoo_turns_on.html/comment-page-1#comment-852 Jim Buckley Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:30:00 +0000 http://dev.straightupsearch.com/archives/2008/05/yahoo-turns-on-searchscan-security-feature.html#comment-852 <p>Yahoo has posted a false "Unsolicited Emails" warning associated with our website, www.rumford.com, when searching for "Rumford fireplaces". The warning is generated by Yahoo's partner, McAfee SiteAdvisor. False because SiteAdvisor says they made that determination by "entering our e-mail address on this site". Problem is, we have no forms or any other way to automatically enter an email message. I do all the site maintenance manually in html and sweep all the pages onto the Internet myself.</p> <p>Thinking that SiteAdvisor had somehow made a simple mistake, I tried to contact them by phone and email - to no avail. After a month of trying, I have not gotten to anyone who will listen. Rather, I get transferred from one anonymous customer relations person to another. Same so far with McAfee and Yahoo.</p> <p>So I have complained to the Washington Attorney General and the California and Texas Better Business Bureau and have hired a lawyer - just to try to get someone in charge to talk with me.</p> <p>I have also spent some time surfing the blogs to see what others think about McAfee and Yahoo. I learned that McAfee falsely targets many websites with their faulty but arrogantly defended technology - and then blames their victims. There is plenty of discussion about the websites McAfee has falsely red tagged on several blogs, such as <a href="http://ycorpblog.com/2008/05/05/do-you-know-where-you-mouse-has-been/" rel="nofollow">http://ycorpblog.com/2008/05/05/do-you-know-where-you-mouse-has-been/</a> and <a href="http://www.crn.com/security/208401061" rel="nofollow">http://www.crn.com/security/208401061</a> and <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help</a></p> <p>I also discovered at <a href="http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2006-3.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2006-3.htm</a> that McAfee paid a $50 million penalty to settle a lawsuit filed against them by the SEC for fraud.</p> <p>If you have any helpful advice or would like to join us in a lawsuit please contact me.</p> <p>Jim Buckley<br /> 360 385 9974<br /> buckley@rumford.com</p> Yahoo has posted a false “Unsolicited Emails” warning associated with our website, http://www.rumford.com, when searching for “Rumford fireplaces”. The warning is generated by Yahoo’s partner, McAfee SiteAdvisor. False because SiteAdvisor says they made that determination by “entering our e-mail address on this site”. Problem is, we have no forms or any other way to automatically enter an email message. I do all the site maintenance manually in html and sweep all the pages onto the Internet myself.

Thinking that SiteAdvisor had somehow made a simple mistake, I tried to contact them by phone and email – to no avail. After a month of trying, I have not gotten to anyone who will listen. Rather, I get transferred from one anonymous customer relations person to another. Same so far with McAfee and Yahoo.

So I have complained to the Washington Attorney General and the California and Texas Better Business Bureau and have hired a lawyer – just to try to get someone in charge to talk with me.

I have also spent some time surfing the blogs to see what others think about McAfee and Yahoo. I learned that McAfee falsely targets many websites with their faulty but arrogantly defended technology – and then blames their victims. There is plenty of discussion about the websites McAfee has falsely red tagged on several blogs, such as http://ycorpblog.com/2008/05/05/do-you-know-where-you-mouse-has-been/ and http://www.crn.com/security/208401061 and http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help

I also discovered at http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2006-3.htm that McAfee paid a $50 million penalty to settle a lawsuit filed against them by the SEC for fraud.

If you have any helpful advice or would like to join us in a lawsuit please contact me.

Jim Buckley
360 385 9974
buckley@rumford.com

]]> By: Keirsun http://www.straightupsearch.com/archives/2008/05/yahoo_turns_on.html/comment-page-1#comment-851 Keirsun Tue, 13 May 2008 12:37:00 +0000 http://dev.straightupsearch.com/archives/2008/05/yahoo-turns-on-searchscan-security-feature.html#comment-851 <p>David - Thanks for your comment and for blogging about your recent, tangled mess of an experience with Yahoo - everyone who works with Yahoo on any level should read your post. When I wrote this post I figured it would only be a matter of time before the horror stories starting coming in following the launch of Yahoo SearchScan. In my experience, Yahoo has been notorious for refusing to fix its own mistakes. In the short term, this hurts the business owner trying to work with Yahoo. In the long term, Yahoo's unwillingness to own up to its problems only hurts Yahoo. As is evident in Yahoo's falling U.S. search share.</p> David – Thanks for your comment and for blogging about your recent, tangled mess of an experience with Yahoo – everyone who works with Yahoo on any level should read your post. When I wrote this post I figured it would only be a matter of time before the horror stories starting coming in following the launch of Yahoo SearchScan. In my experience, Yahoo has been notorious for refusing to fix its own mistakes. In the short term, this hurts the business owner trying to work with Yahoo. In the long term, Yahoo’s unwillingness to own up to its problems only hurts Yahoo. As is evident in Yahoo’s falling U.S. search share.

]]> By: David Lewis http://www.straightupsearch.com/archives/2008/05/yahoo_turns_on.html/comment-page-1#comment-850 David Lewis Tue, 13 May 2008 03:54:00 +0000 http://dev.straightupsearch.com/archives/2008/05/yahoo-turns-on-searchscan-security-feature.html#comment-850 <p>The biggest problem with the system is that when it fails and gives a false positive, Yahoo is unwilling to do anything about it.</p> <p>We have been wrongly targeted and have that warning on the few listings that remain in Yahoo. We were booted from Paid Inclusion and we have seen almost all of our Yahoo Paid Search listings taken offline.</p> <p>Why? Because Yahoo says we SPAM. We don't and never will.</p> <p>You can read all of the details at <a href="http://www.revenews.com/davidlewis/my-life-as-a-spammer-or-so-says-yahoo/" rel="nofollow">http://www.revenews.com/davidlewis/my-life-as-a-spammer-or-so-says-yahoo/</a></p> The biggest problem with the system is that when it fails and gives a false positive, Yahoo is unwilling to do anything about it.

We have been wrongly targeted and have that warning on the few listings that remain in Yahoo. We were booted from Paid Inclusion and we have seen almost all of our Yahoo Paid Search listings taken offline.

Why? Because Yahoo says we SPAM. We don’t and never will.

You can read all of the details at http://www.revenews.com/davidlewis/my-life-as-a-spammer-or-so-says-yahoo/

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