Keyword Search in IE a HOAX?????

[TheDemon]

Hello ppl,

I've recently been approached by

http://www.blueplanet-it.com

who are selling me exclusivity to key words and phrases that, when typed in the address bar of IE, take me directly to my site. So if I was a hat shop owner and I bought the rights to the keyphrase "hat shop", whenever anyone typed in "hat shop" they would be directed to my hat shop web site.

Alarm bells started ringing for a number of reasons (the first being that blue planet it cannot be found in the search engines), so I contacted Microsoft. Now maybe I spoke to the wrong department but they had not heard of such a service.

Am I being paranoid? Can anyone prove to me that this service exists? Are Blue Planet IT a valid company? If anyone out there can help me I would be really grateful as I don't want to get shafted!
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[dogviticus]

The service does exist, its funny that MS claimed no knowledge about them because they were developed with MS SOAP and XML.Here's some links....

http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/index/keywords.html

http://www.realnames.com/body/home.asp

http://www.web.cc/kfaq.html

 

[TheDemon]

Thanks for that. It's certainly reassured me on a subject I know little about. The Demon

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