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John Cornellier
2002-11-27 17:36:30, "Anita Lewis" <anital -at- threerivers-cams -dot- com> wrote:
>I'd like to know if anyone else is experiencing insanity with Internet
>advertising, and how you're handling it. The tech writing tie-in is
>that our product is all web based, including the help files, (of
>course). I was walking through our help files yesterday through IE 6.0
>and I started noticing strange hyperlinks underlined in specific words
>(such as "database"). I know I didn't link it to anything. When I
>hovered over the link, I got a little message "Oracle... No. 1 Database
>on the market! Fastest performance on your fastest computer." Clicking
>the link takes me to the following:
>http://www.oracle.com/start/unbreakableoracle/intro_unbreakable_rac.html
>?src=1400412&Act=100
>This is VERY bad for us because we are a total MS shop (no flames
>please!). Part of our marketing hype is that we're Certified Partner to
>MS, etc. So we can't very well have a competing product link to our
>help files! I've looked through the browser settings but I can't figure
>out how to stop it. It's critical we figure out how to stop it ASAP, as
>our clients are using these help files all the time (really, they do!)
>TIA to all who respond. Thanks -
>Anita Lewis
>Training and Customer Support
>Three Rivers Systems, Inc.
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