The Minority Report

Didn’t Cash4Gold just have a SuperBowl commercial? I like that they at least know the Adsense/Google game.

Cash 4 Gold would like to melt down and recast their reputation

On October 6th, that Cockeyed article was featured on Consumerist.com (http://consumerist.com/5059452/how-to-avoid-getting-ripped-off-by-cash4gold). Consumerist is so popular that thousands of people read the article, and the high Consumerist pagerank meant that the Cockeyed article would take its place at the tippy-top of Google results on searches for “Cash 4 Gold”. Anyone searching for “Cash4Gold” had a very good chance at this new insight: Their cash offers for gold are measly.

People approach me all the time looking for ways to promote keywords, but this was the first time someone else was trying to buy me out of their Google search results. This was just like in the movies, right? Guy writes an article exposing underhanded business practices, business leader arranges a meeting to kill the story.

I would totally read the rest of that article…classic Streisand effect^W.