[MEDIA] McLaughlin Defends Site Finder As 'Innovation'

Tue Oct 7 21:40:44 UTC 2003

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:28:33PM -0400, Brian Bruns wrote:
> When smacked down about IE integration and WMP integration, they screamed
> bloody murder and claimed freedom of innovation.  Exactly what
> NetSol/Verisign is doing.  Maybe they have the same PR firm?

Without taking a position on the merits of the comparison, your suspicion
is in fact correct:

Edelman does PR for Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/contactpr.asp
Edelman Seattle
(206) 223-1606

As well as PR for VeriSign for SiteFinder:
From: "Petz, Adrienne" <Adrienne.Petz at edelman.com>
To: "'declan at well.com'" <declan at well.com>
Subject: VERISIGN ALERT for MONDAY: briefing on SiteFinder

-Declan