Tech: What's up with this site? Café Mudcat

Subject: RE: Tech: What's up with this site? Café Mudcat
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 03:31 AM

Yeah, I keep getting Ireland-related stuff flagged up on mine. Sneaky bastards, how dare they take Mudcat's name in vain... harumphhh...

Subject: RE: Tech: What's up with this site? Café Mudcat
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 09:00 PM

There are sites out there now that generate addresses from your Google search; also Mudcat is well-linked so high up in a lot of Google searches. I suspect programming algorithms, rather than specific intent, interest or relationship to the one, the only, the original Mudcat Cafe.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Tech: What's up with this site? Café Mudcat
From: Amos
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 05:24 PM

It's a wannabe forum riddled with cheap commerce; I wouldn't touch it.

A

Subject: RE: Tech: What's up with this site? Café Mudcat
From: GUEST,999
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 05:24 PM

The Coffee Growers of Antarctica have struck!

Subject: RE: Tech: What's up with this site? Café Mudcat
From: Gurney
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 05:20 PM

Well, the site knows that I'm in Auckland. The cafes were all there, unlike Q's which were in Calgary.

Subject: RE: Tech: What's up with this site? Café Mudcat
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 04:35 PM

Looks like a signpost to various advertisements. At the bottom was a "dealfind" for Calgary's best in dining, etc. This led to lots of adv. sites, but nothing specifically in Calgary. I looked because I live in the Calgary area.

There are a number of these in the net; the lead-in looks promising but nothing there. Some purport to have bio data about some musician, or lyrics, but lead only to more advs or ask one to post some information.

Subject: RE: Tech: What's up with this site? Café Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 04:23 PM

What's up with that site?
I'm afraid to speculate...


-Joe-

Subject: Tech: What's up with this site? Café Mudcat
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 04:17 PM

I ran across this website while searching for something else:

Café Mudcat
http://omgili.com/caf%C3%A9-mudcat

There's a strange mixture of Spanish and English. There seems to be some connection with folk music. What's going on here? Is their content somehow derived from our content? (Plus their own advertising, of course.) Is it all just a scam to make people look at their advertising? I've seen suspicious web sites before, but never one that mentioned Mudcat specifically.

I haven't successfully navigated to any other page, if there are any. The only links I clicked on either took me to other sites or timed out. It's really strange.