tuaw.com — I started up a packet sniffer before I ran a search in Dave Watanabe's Inquisitor plugin for Safari. Sure enough, the first link presented was an Amazon link, with an affiliate redirect. Sticking an affiliate link in as the highest ranked result does raise some questions.
Jan 8, 2008 View in Crawl 4
rebotfcJan 8, 2008
Read the article, it's not that he puts affiliate links in, its that he hides the fact and promotes them to the top result.
williamwJan 8, 2008
Ditto.
forsgrenJan 9, 2008
So? I have gotten one h*ll of a rude response when I added him on iChat...I find it a little bit strange that he puts his contact information up if he doesn't want to be contacted.
coldfusion1970Jan 9, 2008
I can tell you honestly that i've never had a problem with it finding what i want "as i type".Great software which my browser couldnt live without.
hoyamanJan 9, 2008
Well, actually he made a share product, and after he didn't sell quite as many as he'd hoed for, he made it free, didn't issue refunds, still request donations, AND doesn't disclose that he's f**king your search results.So he's done a bit more than just not disclose his affiliate program.
ericglassJan 9, 2008
Just for fun put in bittorrent and see what the top result is.