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<title>Oztion&#8217;s biggest obstacle?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Oztion, the Aussie alternative to Ebay, have been spending lots of money on radio advertising lately. While appearing to try and cash in on the very bad publicity Ebay have been copping lately, Oztion have been building brand awareness with the phrase:




  &#8220;Oztion: It&#8217;s Aussie for Auction&#8221;


However, I can&#8217;t help but to think that [...]]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/oztions-biggest-obstacle/</link>
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<title>Yellowpages search still sucks</title>
<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s why Yellowpages search still sucks from the point of view of those who matter: their users.

Try searching for &#8220;Travel Inn Hotel in &#8220;Carlton Victoria&#8221; and you&#8217;ll get 10 results, all for the same Carlton Inn Hotel, situated on the corner of  Grattan &#38; Drummond Streets:





The reason for this stupidity is because the Travel [...]]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/yellowpages-search-still-sucks/</link>
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<title>Microsoft gives away fake prizes</title>
<description><![CDATA[I got spammed by the giant of Redmond a couple of weeks ago, offering me &#8220;cool prizes&#8221;, just to search the web using their struggling search engine.




  From: &#60;m&#x69;c&#114;os&#111;&#102;t&#x6c;&#105;&#x76;&#101;&#x40;s&#101;n&#100;&#101;&#x6d;e&#x64;i&#97;&#x2e;&#99;om&#62;
  To: &#60;xxx&#64;&#108;&#x75;t&#114;ov&#46;&#99;om&#62;
  Subject: Get cool prizes for searching
  Date: 2008-06-20 21:31
  
  Want to earn cool prizes for your online [...]]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/microsoft-gives-away-fake-prizes/</link>
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<title>Spam harvester tracking</title>
<description><![CDATA[Stumbled on this today, while investigating dodgy user agent strings:


  &#8220;Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of [...]]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/spam-harvester-tracking/</link>
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<title>Our top 40 local searches</title>
<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I wrote about how most of our visitors come here via a Google search. A small percentage of those even use the search box on the top-right, once they get here.



Recently, I&#8217;ve looked at our statistics and here are our top 40 local searches:


sensis
html colours
simpleton
wordpress
westpac
youtube
firefox
country codes
firefox extensions
ebay hype
tables
manifest
ivan lutrov
firewall
ebay
stupid browser
sql query [...]]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/our-top-40-local-searches/</link>
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<title>Trust the Midas touch?</title>
<description><![CDATA[I received this &#8220;mainsleaze&#8221; spam a few days ago from Midas. Now this is supposed to be a reputable, mainstream company but stupid actions such as this are likely to damage their reputation for quite a while:





Looking at the email headers and body reveals that apart from &#8220;dataxlt.com&#8221;, &#8220;online-replies.com&#8221; and &#8220;expressdataonline.net&#8221; are also somehow involved:


 [...]]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/trust-the-midas-touch/</link>
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<title>Dell phishing scam</title>
<description><![CDATA[I received this email, claiming to be from Dell, and offering to give me a free laptop, just for answering a short survey:




  From: &#8220;Computer Testing Program&#8221; &#60;K&#101;&#x6c;le&#121;Dom&#105;&#x6e;&#x67;&#117;&#x65;z&#64;s&#104;&#117;lo&#x67;u.&#109;atf&#101;&#x6c;on&#x2e;&#99;&#111;&#109;&#62;
  To: &#x78;&#120;x&#x40;l&#x75;&#x74;&#x72;o&#x76;.co&#x6d;
  Subject: Dell&#8482; Laptop Confirmation #181e-371G
  Date: 2008-06-02 20:58
  
  
  
  Dell&#8482; Laptop Giveaway #181e-371G
  To: [...]]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/dell-phishing-scam/</link>
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<title>Microsoft&#8217;s cashback and Yahoo</title>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft recently announced that it&#8217;s willing to pay people money for using their crappy search engine, provided the people buy something, and provided the people live in America.

The more I think about it, the more I&#8217;m convinced that Microsoft aren&#8217;t after Google, they&#8217;re actually after Yahoo.

With their failed takeover attempt fresh in everyone&#8217;s minds, this [...]]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/microsofts-cashback-and-yahoo/</link>
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<title>Australian dictionary for Firefox</title>
<description><![CDATA[As most of you Firefox users are probably aware, the latest version has a built-in spell checker which is really useful in web forms. But if you prefer a proper spell checker (rather than the default American one), you should download the Australian Dictionary extension from Cameron Roy instead.
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<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/australian-dictionary-for-firefox/</link>
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<title>Forget Adobe, Foxit instead</title>
<description><![CDATA[

For those of you who are still using the over-bloated Adobe Reader to view and print your PDF documents, seriously consider uninstalling it and replacing it with Foxit Reader instead.

Unlike the ubiquitous Adobe product, Foxit Reader is around 10 times smaller in size, loads much faster and it won&#8217;t freeze your computer. It&#8217;s probably the [...]]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/forget-adobe-foxit-instead/</link>
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