I have several Google News Alerts that send me links to stories in an email. I have many rethugs in there so I can follow their legal and other troubles. One is Italia Federici. Oddly, her last alert turned up three stories - one from huffingtonpost.com, but two others from what appear to be regular blogs. What is odd is that the two blogs appear to be the Huffington article, but have random, nonsensical word changes in them. Are these attempts to confuse the Google and other search engines?
All three had the same title in the alert and on the page, "People convicted in the Abramoff investigation." Continue to see a sample from each, compare, and figure out if there's a conspiracy here.
Here are the first parts of the articles. Click the links to see the rest.
Huffington Post
Lawmakers, lobbyists, Bush administration officials, congressional staffers and businessmen caught up in the Jack Abramoff public corruption probe:
_John Albaugh, a one-time top aide to former Oklahoma Rep. Ernest Istook pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the House as part of the scandal. Albaugh admitted in federal court in Washington that he accepted meals and sports and concert tickets, along with other perks, from lobbyists in exchange for official favors.
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What is going on here? Is this some attempt to confuse search engines? Also, note that links on the blog pages also go to scrambled text.
Any ideas? Any conspiracy buffs out there? Beats me, first time I've seen this.
BTW, I highly recommend Goggle News Alerts. Put in your favorite perp, and you can continue to follow them even after they fade from the top headlines. I use them for all kinds of things.