Knowledge Handler

Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques

: Name: David Dial; Location: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Fraudulent Advertising

Kaiser Fung describes why fraudulent advertisers thrive.

-DD

Labels: Junkmail, marketing, Robocalls, Spam

Friday, April 12, 2019

Webspam Report 2018

Google has released Webspam Report 2018, which recounts efforts by the search giant to ensure that users do not get spammy results.

-DD

Labels: google, Spam, Webspan Report

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Google Maps Spammers

Huang et al. (2017) examined spammers' activity on Google maps.

-DD

Labels: Google Maps, Spam

Friday, November 03, 2017

Marketers, Avoid Resending Emails

Scott Heimes suggests that sending copies of former emaisls as reminders can be bad for marketing because users are likely to unsubscribe to your list, and ISPs may see the duplicate emails as spam.

-DD

Labels: email, email list, Spam

Friday, October 23, 2015

Double Opt-In

Mark Gibbs rants about inadvertant spam, and suggests that double opt-in practices by corporate marketers could be improved. He suggests practices which any business using e-mail marketing should embrace.

-DD

Labels: e-mail, Mailing lists, Spam