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Originally Posted by sarettah
No difference in my mind.
If I rewrite the link code I am now sending the surfer where I want him to go.
If I move the cursor to the searchbox when the user placed the cursor in the address box himself, I have now in effect hijacked the borwser from the user. The purpose of that is to capture what he was trying to enter into the address box and I am using that information to send him where I want him to go within my search results and as your title says :make some mobney from him"
In the long run there is very little difference. In one you are ripping off a fellow webmaster in the other you are ripping off the surfer.
The only way that that can be considered ethical is under the guise of "honor amonst thieves", in other words, it is ok to rip off a surfer but it is not ok to rip off a webmaster.
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I guess I don't see anything wrong with it because of where I would use it, primarily on something like a blog or feeder page, where people aren't normally going to use it all that much. When i enter in a url into the address bar and hit enter, where is my cursor? no where on any blank on the page, and definitely still not in the address bar, and this is how people are used to things....the cursor is gone normally, and this is how people are used to it, so to think that when someone opens my page up that they will start typing instantly is just a wierd though, and the more I think about this mouse trap thing the more I think it is kind of stupid for my sites, because no one would probably instantly start typing when they get to one of my sites....not because I think it is scamming or something
I don't know dude, I just seriously don't see anything wrong with it. The ONLY thing I would be causing the surfer to do is click the "back" button if he typed something when he got to my site and hit enter for some bizarre reason.
I mean, if I am surfing around on a site and typed something in not realizing that it was in a google adsense box, then hit enter....I would not be upset and feel like I was ripped off, I would just wonder what happened and hit "back"....hardly a scam