Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Brits Use SEO Strategies To Fight Terrorism



From CNET:

Islam is getting a little help from Britain's Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism, which says it plans to train government-approved groups to "flood the Internet" with "positive" interpretations of that religion in an online fight against radicalization.

The OSCT plans to coach moderate Islamic groups on how to manipulate the Google rankings of their Web sites in order to boost the online profile of moderate voices in the Muslim community, reports The Register, a British online investigative newspaper.

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My Comment: When the Bush administration announced their multi-million dollar PR effort to the Middle East (on the heels of the Iraq war), I mentioned how this was a total waste of resources and time. The people that they want to target are the ones who are on the web .... which thanks to the British they are now targeting.

1 comment:

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