Is Fox Sports Doing a Link “Bait & Switch”
February 5, 2008
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What’s this? Anyone know? I’m on Fox Sports tonight looking at some Super Bowl coverage and I see a link that says “Start Your Own Sports Blog.” Being a social media geek, I check it out. The status bar says it’s going to take you to: “http://msn.foxsports.com/blogs.”
So I click on it, to see what they’re up to and how cool or uncool their blogging platform is. (I actually thought it might be pretty cool. I mean, what a great opportunity to put your sports thoughts on a community of big time sports fans.)
But what I get after a quick redirect is a link to http://www.grab.com/, which appears to be some sort of pile of crap that doesn’t seem to let you start any sort of blog, let alone a Fox Sports blog. Online games, ads for Zwinky (which is spyware in our view) and a bunch of other nonsense.
Anyone know what’s up with this? Has Fox Sports sold out? Is it an error in the link? Is it really an ad that looks like a link? What’s up?
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What nice catch! It is hard to tell if this is an error. I did some investigating, and they simply might be selling this spot.
Here ya go:
–15:07:41– http://msn.foxsports.com/blogs/
=> `msn.foxsports.com/index.html’
Resolving msn.foxsports.com… 69.26.166.25, 69.26.166.18
Connecting to msn.foxsports.com|69.26.166.25|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://msn.blogs.foxsports.com [following]
–15:07:42– http://msn.blogs.foxsports.com/
=> `msn.blogs.foxsports.com/index.html’
Resolving msn.blogs.foxsports.com… 8.5.0.150
Connecting to msn.blogs.foxsports.com|8.5.0.150|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.grab.com/ [following]
–15:07:42– http://www.grab.com/
=> `www.grab.com/index.html’
Resolving www.grab.com… 8.5.0.150
Connecting to www.grab.com|8.5.0.150|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
It looks like an error, because they do have a ’start your our blog’ - http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/ (NOT http://msn.foxsports.com/blogs/)
Mike, your brilliant! Glad you’re on our team…
Mystery solved…
~Jim