[Sussex] When Dynamic Web Pages go wrong

Steve Dobson SDobson at manh.com
Thu Jul 3 07:54:02 UTC 2003


Nik

On 03 July 2003 at 00:53 nik at wired4life.org wrote:
> So I was using Lycos to search for Stuff, cuase sometimes 
> Lycos you know
> !, when I noticed that at the bottom I was being offered to 
> 
> Buy and Sell [ insert what I searched for here] on ebay.
> 
> 
> So when I entered the search phrase 'Small Children' I was 
> amazed to see I
> could buy and sell Small Children on Ebay !
> 
> http://search.lycos.co.uk/cgi-bin/pursuit?query=Small+Children
&SITE=uk&sfn=loc&cat=loc&matchmode=and&lang=any&idx=all&x=13&y=12
>
> just too damn funny if you ask me, 

(-: I think you should report Lycos & eBay to the police      :-)
(-: There has been a lot in the news about people trafficking :-)
(-: lately.  You may just have found the ring leaders         :-)

Steve




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