US Coast Guard Website?

[WillyBWright]

I just heard of this website. There is a fair bit of covert advertising (it's a dot com, not a dot gov). But I suppose with constant budget cuts, ya gotta pay fer it somehow. Here's a link to the site... Coast Guard Webpage . Kindly ignore all the extranneous commercial crapola. There's a lot of good information.<br /><br />In case it's poofed, it's uscgboating dot com.

 

[KRS]

Re: US Coast Guard Website?

It's not a US Coast Guard website.

 

[WillyBWright]

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That figures! So how do they get away with using USCG?

 

[sloopy]

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The Navy wannabes are members of the armed forces, so their website will have .mil at the end, hence uscg.mil.

 

[Drowned Rat]

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Navy wannabes?<br /><br />Hardly.

 

[sloopy]

Re: US Coast Guard Website?

Originally posted by Drowned Rat:<br /> Navy wannabes?<br /><br />Hardly.

It is a Simpsons Joke. <br />I love the Coast Guard

 

[KRS]

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"uscg" isn't trademarked.

 

[roscoe]

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Let me guess Willy, you found this site using a seach engine?<br />It did not find a match for your search criteria, so it created a site that looks like what you wanted to find.<br />It them lists all the links to all possible related sites, most if not all of them are selling something.<br /><br />Its been going on more and more on the web.<br /><br />Always use a "non-commercial" search engine.<br />Never use a search engine that is part of another website.<br /><br />Google does a pretty good job.<br />They separate their advertisers from the rest of the listings.<br /><br />Yahoo, MSN, AOL - will direct you to their partners and advertisers first.

 

[WillyBWright]

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Actually I saw it on a TV ad that briefly mentioned boating safety. I think they wanted to leave people with the impression that it was all about boating safety, but I'm betting it was a Mercury ad in disguise. Everywhere you looked ... Mercury, Mercury, Mercury. Funniest thing was their promotion of using PFDs and all I saw was a Mercury.