MartinWills Posted 21 March , 2013 Share Posted 21 March , 2013 At least you are getting something that is relevant or that you might use! I don't Should I worry about the funeral costs - do they (or the WFA) know something I don't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eairicbloodaxe Posted 21 March , 2013 Share Posted 21 March , 2013 "Why worry about funeral costs when for a very reasonable sum etc etc..." The way the google adsense ads work is as the previous poster says. It matches ads to promotions it believes you're interested in. If you are "ahem" of a certain age, it naturally assumes you must be thinking about those sorts of things. Website owners who sign up to the program to help fund their sites really do have very little say in what ads are displayed. If the viewer spends some of their leisure time browsing, say, sites of a more robust nature, featuring (for example) ladies who appear to have mislaid their clothes... they will likely see ads offering similar services... at least so I'm told. ;-) (BTW, If you do want to know about funeral costs, I am your man. Have just spent the last few days writing mailpacks about funeral plans!) To return to the subject of the original post, having also done some work planning the marketing for a future launch of some never-before-seen military records, the research I did into competitors hardly covered FWR with glory for what they offered. It makes sense for sites offering paid for content to work with people like Chris and LLT because of the commercial benefits of co-operation. But you do it by negotiating to license their valuable content - not by copying it without even a by your leave. Regards Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 22 March , 2013 Share Posted 22 March , 2013 At least you are getting something that is relevant or that you might use! I don't Should I worry about the funeral costs - do they (or the WFA) know something I don't? Who knows? Do you excavate objects on battlefields? If so there might be no need for a funeral! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinWills Posted 22 March , 2013 Share Posted 22 March , 2013 I just looked again at the WFA homepage and the adverts were for 1. Villeroy and Boch e-shop (I buy porcelain online from them); 2. Cornish Cottages (they think I'm on their mailing list); 3. Eurotunnel (I'm on theirs); 4. FWR (which I'd never visited before Chris posted on his FB about this plagiarism today). I think it's doubtful that the first two have any remote connection with the First World War! Gwyn According to V & B on the web ..... 'World War One had a devastating effect on Europe's people and Villeroy and Boch...' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Nixon Posted 27 April , 2013 Share Posted 27 April , 2013 This is interesting. I heard today that a similar complaint I had made to ASA about Forces Reunited Ltd had also been upheld. My complaint was against their claim that that the site offers "the most complete record of your military ancestors". It clearly does not. The company has also agreed to clarify exactly what they mean by "name records", providing qualifying text in their marketing. I shall be monitoring their site and maintain my high suspicion levels of this outfit and its claims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Light Posted 27 April , 2013 Share Posted 27 April , 2013 Well done, Paul. Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 27 April , 2013 Author Share Posted 27 April , 2013 Paid good money for that valuable information about a unit? I hope it wasn't HMS Pembroke: http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/Unit-Info/1146 - info from FWR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Pembroke - info from Wikipedia Spot the similarity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Light Posted 27 April , 2013 Share Posted 27 April , 2013 If you're at a loose end or bored with living, try changing the last four figure digit of their URLs to get up a selection of unit information. Almost every page is cut and pasted from either Wikipedia or some other history website. Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 12 May , 2013 Author Share Posted 12 May , 2013 I see that FWR appear to have acquired the popular family history forum British-Genealogy.com. It now carries a very large advertising banner. Pity - that used to be quite a good forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 12 May , 2013 Share Posted 12 May , 2013 Chris Unless I've missed something, I don't see that FWR has acquired the forum. Could it not be that the forum has simply taken advertising? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 12 May , 2013 Author Share Posted 12 May , 2013 It is obliquely referred to in some of the posts, John. Such as in this thread: http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-77658.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 12 May , 2013 Share Posted 12 May , 2013 If you're at a loose end or bored with living, try changing the last four figure digit of their URLs to get up a selection of unit information. Almost every page is cut and pasted from either Wikipedia or some other history website. Sue Well it beats watching pitch drip! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 12 May , 2013 Share Posted 12 May , 2013 It is obliquely referred to in some of the posts, John. Such as in this thread: http://www.british-g...hp/t-77658.html Ah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Light Posted 12 May , 2013 Share Posted 12 May , 2013 And in this thread, the helpful Dominic from Forces War Records suggests searching his site, although they don't even have the records he refers to: WW1 thread on B-G Forum Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithmroberts Posted 12 May , 2013 Share Posted 12 May , 2013 Spotted this on the British genealogy site: "The main British Genealogy site and forum is sponsored by Forces War Records, the military records site." Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 21 May , 2013 Share Posted 21 May , 2013 Just seen an advert for them on Channel 5 - in the middle of the Tunnels of Death programme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 21 May , 2013 Share Posted 21 May , 2013 Forces War Records Collections List Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxy Posted 21 May , 2013 Share Posted 21 May , 2013 Chris, Your original link leads to a 'page unavailable'; presumably FWR's info appears to be identical to that supplied by LLT. If so, I agree that it is disturbing. Hopefully you can get it resolved. Roxy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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