Joerg wrote in news:gjTTh.3376$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net:
Don't you mean drab, limp and sodden? >:) Maplin is a sad parody now, it makes Tandy (Radio Shack) look downright cool. Ok, I jest..
But Maplin turns up unwanted in Google results with generic strings with phrases like search terms buried in them looking like a simpleton, or a broken robot trying to talk. It's obvious that Maplin can't offer those things, they just suggest they can, they're almost all polluting Google with the efforts of people why tried, and failed to find results on Maplin cos they aren't there, yet Maplin's coders, in their inneffable, nay, infinite wisdom, have polluted the interweb indefinitely with a catalog of their failures. By the time they realise that this ghastly mess has been made, it will be too late to do anything about it, and probably too late for Maplin to survive with a web presence of any credible kind. It's like watching a supertanker. You know it can't turn before it will run aground, and when you look closely you can see the crew asleep at their stations.