Though hardly strangers to spam (junk email), Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were amused one day to receive emails from a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) firm:
"Dear google.com," the emails read, "I visited your website and noticed that you are not listed in most of the major search engines and directories..."
["Reserve the same skepticism for unsolicited email about search engines," google advises users, "as you do for 'burn fat at night' diet pills or requests to help transfer funds from deposed dictators."]
[Among the lines in Google's mission statement? "Don't be evil."]
Sources
google; Vanity Fair, Oct. 2003, p. 240;
