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Adam replied on August 28, 2008 18:43 to the problem "Get Satisfaction appears to be "passing off" in search results" in Get Satisfaction:
(I'm studying the differences between your reply Eric and the now disappeared one from Amy Muller :) )
I appreciate your response and do understand your reasoning for creating this site. It is, as you say, valuable to both customers and businesses. My problem comes from the way that you present this means of feedback.
Using the B & H Buses example I linked to above the page title (which for many would be the first touch of GS) makes the page look very much like it is an official support resource for the named company and not a third party offering.
The page design itself also places the subject company's name in large bold type in the upper left corner of the site (and, if available, the logo too). This is where most web users would look if they were hoping to identify the site they were visiting as is the case in 99.9% of web sites. Your site is very skilfully designed, taking into account your subject matter I have trouble believing that this convention was ignored in an effort to differentiate yourselves.
The Get Satisfaction brand is deliberately one that fits with those of other companies which is something that I understand you would aim for as it has to sit alongside a billion other logos but for me, in its current positioning this serves to support my current, slightly wary, view of how you are doing things.
My main reason for this concern is that I believe less savvy web users may believe that they are submitting genuine support issues directly to the business that they are dealing with when they post them here. This could then leave the customer thinking that Company X is neglecting them when they don't reply because Company X don't use your service.
This isn't an attack or a troll, it's a genuine concern.
Adam asked a question in Brighton and Hove Buses on August 28, 2008 18:16:
Why, in this age of recycling, are paper tickets still issued?I can't imagine how many journeys are made every day on the buses in Brighton. They must number in the tens of thousands at least and a very high percentage involve people buying, then throwing away, paper tickets. Come on!
Adam reported a problem in Get Satisfaction on August 28, 2008 16:57:
Get Satisfaction appears to be "passing off" in search resultsI'm concerned that Get Satisfaction appears to be "passing off" as other businesses in search results.
Take, for example, this page - http://getsatisfaction.com/brightonan... - whose page title is "Customer service & support for Brighton And Hove Buses". This would appear to attempt to quite wilfully mislead web users looking through Google results into believing that they've found a legitimate support area for Brighton And Hove Buses and not one offered by a third party.
I'm curious what others, and GS themselves, think about this, I'm sure it has been covered before...
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