The observer effect
By Adam Gaffin, NetworkWorld.com, 06/09/03
Dan Bricklin raised an interesting issue: Say he's writing a top-secret competitive analysis and includes a link to a competitor's site. The competitor will then get an entry in its referral log on its Web server and so know his company is looking at them. What to do?
Biz Stone, however, says there are services that can block the real IP address from showing up. Another conference-goer says he uses a proxy variant to make sure a different IP address shows up.
Bricklin: But you need to have that in your toolkit, or you'll run into problems.
"By reading their URL (from competitors), I can see how they're thinking," the proxy guy said.
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Would a service such as makeashorterlink.com not also serve the same purpose?
Posted by: D on June 9, 2003 05:33 PM
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