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Old January 28th, 2009, 01:07 PM
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Yahoo! Canada, Air Miles® and FreeCause Target Two-Thirds of Canadian Households With Agreement That Rewards Consumers' Online Searches
Industry leaders form partnership; set agenda for online traffic and core search-engine expansion
- Yahoo! Canada aggressively pursues search engine market share growth through partnership with Canada's premiere loyalty program
- AIR MILES Collectors to earn free reward miles for online searches, in addition to reward miles earned while shopping online
- Software solution innovator FreeCause Inc. targets expansion in Canadian marketplace
Source - http://www.marketwire.com/press-rele...am-942774.html

As a point of information I know the bar has had some bugs in it and some merchants aren't live on it because of this NON compliance. I haven't tested it myself.
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Old January 28th, 2009, 01:08 PM
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BTW, Freecause powers the OneCause Toolbar - see http://www.linksteal.com for more information.
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Old January 28th, 2009, 01:20 PM
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Wonder why all the search partnerships I've seen with parasites so far has been with Yahoo. WeCare, SchoolPop, all mention Yahoo search in their press releases. Maybe I need to start blocking slurpbot..
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Old January 28th, 2009, 01:25 PM
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Old January 28th, 2009, 01:37 PM
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Searched for my merchants and notified them of the new toolbar.
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Old January 28th, 2009, 01:46 PM
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It's not only for Adwhore friendly merchants..... They're recruiting scumbag affiliates too http://affiliates.freecause.com/
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Old January 28th, 2009, 01:48 PM
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Wonder why all the search partnerships I've seen with parasites so far has been with Yahoo. WeCare, SchoolPop, all mention Yahoo search in their press releases. Maybe I need to start blocking slurpbot..
Yahoo PPC's conversion ratio had been tanking (causing me to quit bidding)...maybe it's because they're sending this crud "traffic" to the advertisers?

I'd be surprised if they're sending free listing data through the toolbars, unless it's buried under loads of PPC results, or it causes the person to end up on Yahoo itself (so Yahoo can show its own ads then).
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We're one of the larger Canadian affiliates and we're researching what exactly the toolbar does and doesn't do right now before we take action. I could use some help actually. Since I just signed up and can't send PM's could Haiko de Poel, Jr. please contact me?

Also, it's Air Miles that's doing the bad deed here, Air Canada is unrelated. The program related to Air Canada is aeroplan which also has an incentive system for buying online but no toolbar.
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