liz3564 wrote:I teach Web Design and develop curriculum at a local college here in NC.
That's awesome!
Then you know how badly bookofabraham.com and mormonscripturestudies.com are designed! It burns my eyes to look a them.
liz3564 wrote:I teach Web Design and develop curriculum at a local college here in NC.
It was noted recently on this board that when one googles "Mormon", a paid advertisement for the "More Good Foundation" (MGF) appears. This foundation is located in Orem, and its purpose is to flood the Internet with inter-linked pro-mormon websites so that anything critical to the Church is buried below the pro-mormon sites. The president of the foundation is apologist Allen L Wyatt and the MGF website has a video of Daniel C. Peterson commenting on the MGF charter.
I suspect that the MGF is a front that is funded indirectly by tithing money, but it might be privately funded. More than 200 domain names were recently purchased by the MGF, and the foundation offers to buy and help with the development of any pro-lds site that a TBM wants to build. A recent meeting at the foundation featured a lecture by the LDS Church's coordinator of websites.
The members-only section of the site contains links to information on how to "cheat" search-engines so that your site comes up higher when someone does a search. The foundation is also working with an Orem-based search-engine optimization marketing firm . There is also an effort to publish pro-mormon sites in different languages.
What follows is a listing of the websites that were recently purchased by the MGF. Notice how they nearly all have the same links on them. All of them link to the main pro-LDS sites. When Google indexes these sites, it increases the ratings of the pro-LDS websites.
Note also that domains such as "antimormonism.com" and "debunkingmormonism.com" have been purchased. This reminds one of the ploy used by the Church of Scientology when it infiltrated, bankrupted, and purchased the Cult Awareness Network, one of its biggest critics. Scientology now owns the Cult Awareness Network!
pppfft! No worse designed than the actual book of abraham!Simon Belmont wrote:liz3564 wrote:I teach Web Design and develop curriculum at a local college here in NC.
That's awesome!
Then you know how badly bookofabraham.com and mormonscripturestudies.com are designed! It burns my eyes to look a them.
Infymus wrote:That's nothing. On February 8, 2006 I reported that both Allen Wyatt and Daniel C. Peterson were registering hundreds of websites in order to confuse people into landing on their sites - rather than so-called "anti-mormon" sites.
Simon Belmont wrote:Hey Infymus, I can see that you replied although I have no desire to see what new hate you've spewed from your keyboard. Keep doing what you're doing, and I hope that you can feel good about yourself, especially when you have children and grandchildren. They'll say "Grandpa, what were you like when you were my age?" And you'll have to reply "well... uh... I created a massive bigoted website towards a religion that I freely joined out of my own free will." Yes, that'll show 'em!
Simon Belmont wrote:I am the IT director at Stamford Hospital.
Doctor Scratch wrote:Simon Belmont wrote:I am the IT director at Stamford Hospital.
That's interesting, since as far as I can tell, that specific position does not exist at Stamford Hospital.
Doctor Scratch wrote:Simon Belmont wrote:I am the IT director at Stamford Hospital.
That's interesting, since as far as I can tell, that specific position does not exist at Stamford Hospital.