CDNN posted incorrect story about Tilden's Scuba Center in Marathon, Florida

[TildensScubaCenter]

My name is Sally Billiter and my husband Tilden and I own Tilden's Scuba Center in Marathon, Florida.

CDNN posted an article about the unfortunate death of a diver in the Keys, an accident which happened about a week ago. Not only did the site completely over dramatize this whole sad situation, but it also said it happened at Tilden's Scuba Center. It did not. We sold one of our two shops nearly a year ago, which has since been renamed, and it was that location that had the accident.

The other shop was not at fault in any way, but regardless, I wanted to clear that up as our dive shop has had ZERO major incidences in the decades we've been here.

Our shop, and the one that had the accident, are extremely safety conscious, to which our many divers can attest.

Diver deaths are sad enough without a website taking advantage of them to write an extremely exaggerated story.

 

[Rick Inman]

CDNN... yeah, no one is surprised to see un-truths on that site. Here's another thread going on about them: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/basic-scuba-discussions/259820-fake-diving-websites-watch-out.html

 

[TildensScubaCenter]

Thank you- It's just so unfortunate that google links searches to CDNN. That article is the fourth one down if you search Tilden's Scuba Center on google.

 

[DiveMaven]

At least most of us know that CDNN is basically junk reporting, wish everyone did. Thanks so much for posting the true information.

 

[Rhone Man]

Which begs the question of why whoever ranks site listings at Google seems to hold them in such high regard? They always seem to be right up there on the Google hits.

 

[diversteve]

Pagerank is run by Google but it's not ranked by them. So basically all the people who view the CDNN site contribute to their ranking. Kind of like all the people who buy the National Enquirer.

Oh wait, I didn't mean to insult the Nat'l Enquirer...

 

[mike_s]

Tilden Scuba,

CDNN stories are jokes. Most of them are plagiarized from other news stories and then embellished to make the story more sensationized.


Just to show how inaccurate the story is, (Link removed at Mike_S' request) CDNN :: Scuba diving accident kills Tilden’s Scuba Center customer), it actually calls Tilden out in the title and also refernces the name of another dive boat that is owned by another company. Just proof they don't check their facts.


Most likely this is the story that CDNN used as basis for their plagiarized story. If you compare the two stories side by side, you can tell they follow the same storyline and use many of the same descriptions.

Another diver dies off the Keys (from the KeyNoter news)


what to do about it? you could contact CDNN, but I doubt they'd respond.


Google has several links where you can report fraudulent sites

Contacting Support - Web Search Help Center

Contact Us - Web Search Help Center

Removing Information From Google : Personal information - Web Search Help Center

https://www.google.com/accounts/Ser...s/tools/removals?hl=en&ltmpl=urlremoval&hl=en

 

[mike_s]

Which begs the question of why whoever ranks site listings at Google seems to hold them in such high regard? They always seem to be right up there on the Google hits.

once you figure out how Google or other search engines base their ranking, you can put certain items in your website source code (at specific locations) so that it will rank it based on that. CDNN (like other companies) has figured that out so that it will bring more traffic to it's site. traffic means ad revenue. They could care less about the truth.

A perfect example of that is Scubaboard does the same thing so that threads are ranked higher in google in searches. Many other companies do the same thing.

half the stuff you read on the internet isn't true in the first place. yet you can still find it in search engines.

 

[TildensScubaCenter]

Well thanks for the support folks. It's great to hear back from divers like you all that apparently have known about this website longer than I have!

 

[Walter]

I don't know anyone who thinks CDNN is credible.