Topic is used as an ad
 

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

I'm not really sure what you mean. Could you post a link, please?

Hi
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.

thanks

How do I do that?

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/ar...p/t-49764.html

Duh Here it is.

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

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?

http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?c...ons+sheepskins

Oh well, what can you do.

Thanks much and good night.

if you are referring to this on that search page then yes, it is not an ad but routine indexing of posts by a search engine. The search engine "bots" crawled the thread and indexed the posts. they are appearing on a search for that company's products because those were mentioned in your posts.

So it doesnt appear to be an ad, but rather just an index on the search engine of your original post from this thread in which you refer to the company's product
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread49764.html

Susan, from reading your post on the link, it sounds like you've really been through a lot with your health. I'm so sorry. :hug: