Web Awards

Web awards -- you've seen them. Those little widgets that sites display so proudly. Some sites have so many, they look like a general in the Russian army.

And just what is a web award? Turns out that anyone can do it. Here's how:

Just make up an interesting little bauble, create a name, such as the "Site for sore eyes award," and start handing them out. Gives you a certain amount of power.

And pretty soon, everyone's got one of your little widgets on their page. When someone clicks on the award, guess where they go? That's right. Straight to your site.

So what are web awards? Free advertising for someone else. And, in most cases, just another Internet scam.

"It's amazing. According to these awards, 95% of the web sites are in the top 5%."
> Vincent Van Gui

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