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Hello List -

Something strange happened to me last night. I had been doing searches from
AltaVista, MSN, Yahoo, etc. for a site that I recently did, just to see how
its standing was percolating up (or down). It's doing way beyond my
expectations.

When I was done, just for the heck of it, I did a search for an old site
that I did in 1996 for a local manufacturing company which no longer
exists, and no longer has a site. When I had done the search engine
registration on this site, the results were absolutely phenomenal. I used
techniques that I had picked up on these lists, and other places (plus I
sacrificed a couple of chickens...hehehe). In any case, some search terms
for this particular site would bring it up as number one in Yahoo, MSN,
Lycos, etc. etc. It was great.

Well, when I did this "fun" search last night, there was a URL that came up
in the results, call it xyz.com, and the synopsis that the search engine
gave was, word for word, the "description" meta tag from my old site. So, I
clicked the link, went to the site, and viewed the HTML source. The meta
tags for "description" and "keywords" were VERBATIM from my old site from
1996, and this site was published in 1998. I immediately felt that whoever
did this site "stole" my meta tags because of the great results they got,
hoping that they would get the same good results.

Well, I was flabbergasted. Then, I was p*ssed! I started to write an email
to the webmaster, but had second thoughts. I think I just want to retain a
lawyer. What do you guys think?

Any comments or help would be appreciated.

TIA,

Mike

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