McTrouble & Deceptive Advertising
For decades, we've been living in a fast-food world. Suddenly, everywhere you look, there's McTrouble. Could it be that we're finally overcoming our addiction to saturated fat and cardboard chips, to Happy Meals and nursery décor? Could the burger era really be coming to an end at last?
Commercial Alert, a consumer group founded by the legendary Ralph Nader, has complained to the US Federal Trade Commission that many search engines are engaged in deceptive advertising. The group alleges the engines instead of using objective search formulas are selling top spots in their search results to the highest bidder without telling users. Engines named in the complaint are MSN, Netscape, Directhit, HotBot, Lycos, Altavista, LookSmart and iWon.
Commercial Alert, a consumer group founded by the legendary Ralph Nader, has complained to the US Federal Trade Commission that many search engines are engaged in deceptive advertising. The group alleges the engines instead of using objective search formulas are selling top spots in their search results to the highest bidder without telling users. Engines named in the complaint are MSN, Netscape, Directhit, HotBot, Lycos, Altavista, LookSmart and iWon.