Can you bribe a hardware review website?
 

Over the past three months, DailyTech put together a series of faux companies, product portfolios and trademarks. In a combination of phone and email correspondences, our team of journalists set out to find illicit and unethical review behavior in the English-print, computer hardware review industry. <br>
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Specifically, these journalists looked for publications that were:<br>

* Willing to sell advertisements (receive funds) in exchange for publishing content.<br>
* Willing to sell advertisements (receive funds) in exchange editor's choice awards.<br>
* Willing to offer viral marketing in exchange for cash and resale hardware.<br>
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Manufacturers pressure publications from all sides when attempting to secure headlines and positive reviews. No money actually exchanged hands during this analysis, and the working relationships lasted less than a week.<br>
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There are approximately 150 circulated English-print technology websites; our team specifically targeted the 35 largest publications. We determined the size of these publications via Alexa’s online index and publication-supplied web statistics. DailyTech was included among this list.

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I think we made the list of "checked websites"? never really got around to responding to their inquiry in time it seems:)

nice way to dodge the bullet ;):D

since they only send me first email last Thursday, wanting my phone number for a call, I preferred the email/MSN way, today is the first day I'm available for a chat, so their dead lines are too short;)