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Comment by NumberFiveAlive | Hacker News Reader

In our online store 'The safer, easier way to pay.' is a part of the page. The logo gif and the markup is part of the specs when you implement Paypal. The code looks like this, and came directly from the Paypal implementation guide:

   <img src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/logo/PayPal_mark_37x23.gif" align="absmiddle" style="margin-right: 7px;" /><span style="font-size: 11px; font-family:    Arial, Verdana;">The safer, easier way to pay.</span>

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Which is smart if they're going for SEO. That button shows up everywhere.

Case in point, do a search for "Click here": http://www.google.com/search?q=click+here That's the ubiquity of the default generated code for inserting a Flash file on a web page.

PayPal has likely spent a ton of resources on figuring out exactly what is the best text to put there (and in what format), because they don't get to change it after the fact.

Meta: Is the scroll bar behavior in the above comment broken for anyone else? I can click and drag to scroll, but the scroll bar itself doesn't actually move until I release my mouse button. (Firefox 3.6.13 on Mac 10.4.11)

Meta reply: Nope, works perfectly for me. I am on Safari 5.0.3 on 10.6.5. Not sure about FireFox but it has always exhibited rather buggy behaviour in certain situations on Mac OS X.