Found through a Google Ad on a friend’s site, BlogSquirrel comes off instantly as yet another attempt to separate stupid naive businessmen from their cash. The service “[a]utomatically monitors 100,000+ blogs each day” as opposed to using Technorati which is not only free but monitors over 5,000,000 sites. I can’t find CyberAlert’s pricing (the navbar link returns a 404 error at the time this was written) but their PR Grants program page implies a cost of $3,000 per year. Founder William Comcowich justifies the service’s utility with articles that coin such amusing phrases as dotgone, at least when he isn’t using his talents to pimp for mortgage spammers.
Do I come across as antagonistic? Sardonic? Sure hope so.
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