State Sues Search Engine Fixer--Again

Saturday, November 10, 2007 2:00 Prime Minister PST

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The is back in court, trying again to acquire a company that sells hunt engine ranking services to change its concern practices.

The Lawyer General's concern office have got Internet Advancement, a , hunt engine selling services company claiming that the company have misrepresented its services, failed to honour warrants and refund clients and made unauthorised complaints to customers' recognition cards.

Internet Promotion that, for a fee, it can make customers' Web pages look in the top 25 consequences of hunt engine queries, but according to tribunal filings, it have not always been able to present on this promise.

One Internet Promotion customer, said that "after respective calendar months not only did my business website not acquire higher arrangement or rankings, but it dropped entirely off the hunt engines," according to .

Another customer, , complained that the company "used keywords that I don't have on my site," the filings state. With these keywords, Internet Promotion was able to achieve the promised rankings, but with keywords that were not relevant, the silver stated.

Internet Advancement, which also makes concern as 4GreatBuys.com, ailments between US$999 and $3,000 in set-up fees, as well as monthly complaints of $149 for its services, the silver said.

The state had already settled similar complaints with Internet Promotion in 2004, but on Tuesday it was back in court, asking for more than penalties, after receiving 60 consumer complaints about the company's concern patterns over the past three years.

Internet Promotion representatives could not be reached immediately for comment.