05 Feb Is Fox Sports Doing a Link “Bait & Switch”
What’s this? Anyone know? I’m on Fox Sports tonight looking at some Super Bowl coverage and I see a link that says “Start Your Own Sports Blog.” Being a social media geek, I check it out. The status bar says it’s going to take you to: “http://msn.foxsports.com/blogs.”
So I click on it, to see what they’re up to and how cool or uncool their blogging platform is. (I actually thought it might be pretty cool. I mean, what a great opportunity to put your sports thoughts on a community of big time sports fans.)
But what I get after a quick redirect is a link to http://www.grab.com/, which appears to be some sort of pile of crap that doesn’t seem to let you start any sort of blog, let alone a Fox Sports blog. Online games, ads for Zwinky (which is spyware in our view) and a bunch of other nonsense.
Anyone know what’s up with this? Has Fox Sports sold out? Is it an error in the link? Is it really an ad that looks like a link? What’s up?
