The website Songsrpeople.
com looks a lot like other amateur-video sites.
It is wallpapered with
clips featuring "the most insane amusement park ever" and "your girlfriend s six friends.
"
The site draws tens of thousands of visitors a month, according to...
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The website Songsrpeople.
com looks a lot like other amateur-video sites.
It is wallpapered with
clips featuring "the most insane amusement park ever" and "your girlfriend s six friends.
"
The site draws tens of thousands of visitors a month, according to audience measurement firms.
It also has ads for national brands, including Target Corp.
, Amazon.
com Inc.
and State Farm.
But Web-security investigators at a firm called White Ops contend that most of the site s visitors
aren t people.
Rather, they are computer-generated visitors, or "bots," designed to fool advertisers
into paying for the traffic, says White Ops, which has blacklisted the site—and thousands more
like it—so that ads from clients such as Zipcar don t land there.
An anonymous representative for Songsrpeople declined to discuss the site s traffic but in an
email called the White Ops methodology into question.
State Farm said it was looking into the matter while Target declined to comment and Amazon
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