Comments on: Update on “India’s Most Trusted Travel site” poll

By: Tarun

Tarun — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:01:18 +0000

When it comes to travel portal yatra is best behind every yatra.

By: Swaroop

Swaroop — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:43:19 +0000

I think Yahoo! Farechase India should also be on the list – http://in.farechase.yahoo.com

By: Ashish

Ashish — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:30:47 +0000

I know. But you need to understand that most of the clickfraud will happen from individual computers..and 800+ # of votes is a good number to match, if somebody really wants to do this.
Most of the OTAs who have written to me are on corporate static IPs – so I am not worried about the gaming part (log shows healthy distinct IPs).

By: Srini

Srini — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:36:59 +0000

Nope Ashish. It can still be manipulated. I just helped Kayak to go from 2 to 5 votes.

The trick is simple. If you have connection with dynamic IP (like Reliance Data Card, Tata Indicom Data Card Or BSNL Dail up connection), you can just get a new IP by reconnecting it. You should also delete all the private connect(like cookies, cache and all) from your browser.

Once you do these two steps, you are free to vote as many times as you want.

Any remedy for this?? I heard that this is one of the biggest ways of doing click fraud and of sending spam emails

By: Ashish

Ashish — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:28:55 +0000

yep..there were some issues earlier..but now its fixed.

By: Nilesh

Nilesh — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:24:46 +0000

system tracks IP address

Now it does. Initially, it did not. I was able to vote twice No, I was not trying to rig the poll but just testing its robustness.