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From: "Dennis Wright" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Genebase and the Vanishing Blog
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 09:41:50 +1100
In-Reply-To: <BFECJOAEEPCFBFFLLBGPKEMBEIAA.scorpion@netconnect.com.au>


David,

Have you tried archive?
http://www.archive.org/index.php
Enter the 'old' URL in the 'waybackmachine' box and click 'Take me Back'

Let us know how you go

Dennis W
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Yes, it takes a while to download but the comments are all there:-
http://tinyurl.com/2qytop
Dennis W
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-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:]On Behalf Of David Faux
Sent: Saturday, 2 February 2008 3:49 AM
To: DNA Rootsweb
Subject: [DNA] Genebase and the Vanishing Blog


List:

In October of last year David Weston provided a link to a blog where
customers of Genebase could air their concerns. Here is the link to the
Rootsweb posting:
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GENEALOGY-DNA/2007-10/1191764414

Just before Christmas a relative sent a video clip from a Canadian TV show
which in essence panned DNA testing largely because of the antics of
Genebase who were in the process of putting test kits in major department
stores for Christmas. The video included an interview with Spencer Wells
who showed how anyone who input "National Genographic" in a web search would
come up with "The DNA Ancestry Project" (i.e., Genebase) as the first hit -
a subtly desguised sponsored link. The message was that this was deceptive
advertising at its worst.

I clicked on the link posted by David to see what customers were saying
and there was a "no information" message, and at the top, an add for "The
DNA Ancestry Project". All of the 137 entries had disappeared and were not
available via searching for cached information - all was vaporized into
cyberspace. No keyword I could come up with would retrieve this
information - it was gone, apparently "cleaned" from the Internet.
Considering that over 90% of the comments were negative in the extreme, I
knew that the company would likely attempt damage control of some kind.
Unless I am misinterpreting things, they perhaps paid to have the
"offensive" material expunged from every nook and crevice on the www. Alas,
for them, there was one little opening to obtain cached material right up to
January. Realizing that they would likely close this gap, I saved
everything to Word - which is fortunate since I can no longer access the
information anywhere on the Internet.

I am not sure what to do with the former contents of the blog, but I do
know that it needs to be available to potential customers, particularly
those who might be tricked into confusing a legitimate scientific endeavor
with what seems to amount to a lowly shoddy money grabbing scheme with no
redeeming attributes. The contents of the blog speak loudly, clearly and
consistently.

Perhaps someone with more computer experience that I can located the data
online. I would appreciate efforts to do so by those more savy in this
department than myself to determine whether indeed the contents of the site
and all trace of it have been zapped out of existance. I will then decide
what to do with my copy of the content.

Thanks,

David K. Faux.

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