This one's pretty specific (click to enlarge). It wants you to go to Google and search for "non slip rug pad ruglock spray" and say the name of the video and the product's price on Amazon. For this you get 7 cents. Obviously doing this involves running a search which presumably increases Google's indexing of this product but isn't that a strange advertising strategy?!
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It's not the indexing of the product that this is manipulating - it's the *autocomplete* results. Note that they specifically ask for you to type the search and not cut-and-paste it, and the search term starts with something general but ends with what is clearly a brand name.
ReplyDeleteThe makers of "Ruglock Spray" are paying to get their name into the Google and Amazon autocomplete results.
Aha! Thanks :) Wondered what was going on. It's the bowels of the internet, that's for sure.
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