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Old 10-12-2008, 07:40 PM #1
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I don't know what to think. A few months ago I posted a thread regarding pain and discomfort in the neuromuscular forum. Imagine my shock when I found the entire thread used as an ad on-line. I know that we have no privacy but I'm a little offended that vBulletin could take the entire thread and post it as an advertisement. Bummer
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I'm not really sure what you mean. Could you post a link, please?
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who used it as an ad? The posts here are copyrighted and so if anyone used it they did so without permission.
Could you please link to the ad so that DocJohn can look into this.

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How do I do that?
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http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/ar...p/t-49764.html

Duh Here it is.
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If it is just indexed on the search engines then that is normal. this is a public forum and so search engines do crawl and index all posts here.

if it is being used by a company in an advertisement then they do not have the right to do so

I sent Doc a PM alerting him of this so he will get it when he checks in tomorrow

in the meantime, if you could copy and paste here what appears in your browser address field when you are on the page that has this copied, that would be very helpful so we can see just what you are referring to, or give us the search term you are using on MSN that leads to this copied info
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I don't want to give them any more free publicity. I use MSN search and it came up. So this is normal? Can you tell from the link?
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Here's what that page is -- it's a search-engine friendly archive that the forum software automatically creates to help the search engines index our community here.

As you'll notice, we don't run ads on NeuroTalk. But we do on the archive pages, because they are rarely viewed by our members, and so don't interfere with anyone's aesthetic. These ads bring in a few dollars a day and help offset the server costs of running NT.

You'll find those pages indexed in search engines, as those are the pages some search engines prefer to index.

I hope this clears up the confusion.

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