Posted by Joel Shepherd on 06/04/05 23:18

Travis Newbury <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:

> me wrote:
> > For instance
> > http://psychology.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.cobweb.nl
> > /jmoonen/
> > And it even uses an old version of my site...
>
> Damn,
> http://psychology.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.microsoft.c
> om
> they are stealing Microsoft too...

Giggle.

> If about.com is "really" doing this, a simple email will stop it.

(Jesus, I hate About.com, but I digress...) An e-mail might stop it, and
it might not hurt to suggest they go to a little more effort to properly
identify the page being framed. E.g., comparing Google's image search to
this About.com example, I see that About.com is using "their" part of
the frameset for advertising, while Google uses their part to fully
identify the page being framed and to acknowledge possible third-party
copyright on the page contents. I don't mind Google's approach -- credit
given where credit is due -- but About.com's is sleazy.

All that said, whether they hit your site directly, or hit it via
someone else's frameset, your visitors are still hitting _your_ site and
enjoying (hopefully) the content you've created. They'll probably come
and go without ever knowing your name, and weren't planning on sending
you cash or bouquets of flowers anyway, so what really _is_ the big deal
about whether the page is framed or not? For a personal site, it's
little more than pride at stake. Life might be more enjoyable if you
don't worry about that quite so much.

--
Joel.

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