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on Monday, 28 December 2009
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Siteground AwardsWe've covered Siteground twice before on this blog. The first time I talked with grudging admiration about how they manage to dominate hosting search results by creating fake review sites and putting themselves at #1. Then we looked at how they'd taken over the old Mambo website for self-promotion.

That grudging admiration has gone. The review sites I can understand. Hosting is a dog-eat-dog industry and many companies cross into ethically grey areas to promote themselves. Look no further than one of Siteground's rival to host the Joomla demo site - Webhostingbuzz has organized a mass-spamming of joomla.org. However, their latest technique crosses the line into fraud:

They are creating and promoting fake awards.

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