Anybody else sick of "usagunsales.com"

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I've noticed lately that nearly any search for something firearm related on Google turns up at least one page in the top ten that links to the above URL. The titles of the links always say something about what you searched for but they always lead to the same page. Now all of that wouldn't bother me, except that have one of those unholy pages that you can't "back" out of. I absoluety hate that. It's like someone said "Gee, we can't seem to get more people to come to our site. Let's make it harder for the ones that do come to leave." I really don't think rudness should be an element in marketing.

Anyway it's easy enough to avoid pages that link to that URL but every once in a while I miss it and end up at that blasted page anyway. GRR...
 
Been there, done that. It's very annoying. If your browser has a "History" button you can click on the page prior to that one to get back to the Google page.
 
Google recently changed the way they rate pages to try to "clean house" on the now-enormous number of "sponsored index shopping sites"--sites that ALWAYS turn up ranked high in searches, because they use enormous lists of page content "keywords" and automated server pages to basically trick search engines into assuming they actually have related content. There's one I have run across many time (for instance) that has dozens of differnt outdoors-sporting-related domain names (such as "outdoorshooting.com, greatoutdoorhunting.com, sportingguns.com, etc, etc.), but all lead to the same index page that has only a small number of sponsored advertiser listings, none of which often do not have what the Google listing seemed to indicate they did.
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I AUTOMATICALLY refuse to shop at places that produce web pages like this, and I urge everyone else not to either. Anyone who makes their website difficult to use does not deserve business, plain and simple. It's one thing to produce a web page on MS software that doesn't work or look quite right in Netscape, but it's totally something else to use deceptive means to get people to your page--particularly when you don't even have the merchandise they were looking for.
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This is also the reason that www.google.com is the only search engine there is to use anymore--none of the others has insisted on keeping paid advertisers out of regular return listings, or on keeping their selection and filtering processes secret. Most other search engines are either human-reviewed indexes, or "bastard children" of Google, that mostly use Google results, but that insert "paid advertiser" listings in the regular returns--and don't indicate that to you.
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I AUTOMATICALLY refuse to shop at places that produce web pages like this, and I urge everyone else not to either. Anyone who makes their website difficult to use does not deserve business, plain and simple.
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Amen! If a web site doesn't work right, another will.
 
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