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http://www.deadmau5.com -> Really, spam?

http://www.comparethemarket.com -> Price comparison site with no known biases in the UK and not owned by British Telecommunications, as it is listed.

Even ONE false positive is enough to make me think this listing is a load of bullshit. How is geocities' "closing down" page spam?

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A site in the UK that gets a huge amount of traffic and is backed by a large off-line national advertising campaign. Why has this been banned? Never seen spam on there, nor have seen them spamming.

Don't be fooled, that advertising campaign only used a 'sensible', similarly-named insurance business to introduce an unusual niche company[1] to the market. It's a clever ploy, you can read about it in Aleksandr Orlov's book that came out a month ago.

[1] http://www.comparethemeerkat.com/

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