Just practice caveat emptor when dealing with those links.
I've found quite a few scam companies through those clicks at times.
On 11/30/06, Mike Schwartz <
mike.l.schwartz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Josef Lowder <joe@actionline.com> wrote:
> > .
> > Are there any TV cable news channels (i.e. Fox News Channel) that are
> > available to view via the Internet? And if so, how is that done?
> >
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> You know how Gmail (www.google.com/mail) is always trying to put
> "smart" context-sensitive info all around the border of the page, when
> you are reading an e-mail message about a certain topic...
>
> Well, when I was reading the above, here is what it put (not over on the
> right, with the so-called "Sponsored Links"), but right on top, where I
> think the "RSS feed" stuff usually goes... ::
>
> it had this:
> Watch Satellite TV on PC - www.your-free-satellite.com - Shocking website
> exposes 100% free satellite TV on your computer
> ...where the underlined part (in case you can't just click on the above) was
> a hyper link to this URL: (("
> http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=BQwAGTDZvRfjNG5nG-QKPmPGhC5KOnhLG3JXQAcCNtwGw2wYQARgBIIaPgAIoBDAAOABQrb_e-v______AWDJ5v6GyKOgGZgB8pmzDqAByoej-wOqAW9BY2NvdW50QWdlMTIwdG9JbmZpbml0eStDQVQyTGF1bmNoK05hbWVEZXRlY3Rpb25WZXJ0aWNhbFdvcmQrUmFkbGlua3NSaHNQYWdlQmVsb3crU3dpdGNoQm90dG9tQWRzK1RpZXIwK1ZpZXdfQ1ayAQlnbWFpbC5jb23IAQHaATBodHRwOi8vZ21haWwuY29tL210c3Fycmx4eTRhamFhbnk5b3BmanAwNG11b2J6bTKoAwE&num=1&adurl=http://www.your-free-satellite.com
> "))
> ...although, if you are not concerned to make sure that it gets counted as
> someone clicking on a certain ad (you might care) (you might not), the only
> part you really need, to get to the same "destination" web page, is probably
> this:
> http://www.your-free-satellite.com
> ...which is also mentioned in the "text" of the "ad".
> Over on the right hand side, it also had:
>
> <<
> Sponsored Links
> Watch Satellite TV on PC
> Controversial website exposes 100% free satellite TV on your computer
> www.free-internet-tv.com
>
> Channel 2 Pays You $300?
> Take A Channel 2 Survey And Get Paid $300 In The Next 15 Minutes!
> HighPaySurveys.com
>
> Is Fox Fair and Balanced?
> You decide who's fair or biased in the 2006 Media Bias Survey!
> www.PollingPoint.com
>
>
> More about...
> Kswo TV TV »
> TV Carts »
> WKMG TV Local News »
> Kens TV News Director »
>
>
> About these links
> >>;
> actually most of that may be N/A, but the first one ("100% free")
> might be what you are looking for...
>
> Comment: (/reminder) I was not doing a Google "search ".
> I was just reading my e-mail using Gmail.
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> Mike Schwartz
> Glendale AZ
> schwartz@acm.org
> Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com
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