Companies Can Purge Blogs & Search Engines of Controversy
Let’s say you are doing due diligence before investing your life savings into a particular franchise or business opportunity. You put the company name into several search engines and find no complaints or negative comments. That’s a good sign, right?
Not necessarily.
It could mean that somehow all signs of controversy have “disappeared” from the search engines and even from anywhere but the remotest corners of the Internet.
For instance, a week or so ago, there was a debate raging about the connection between a franchise company called Java Jo’z and a new company called Cuppy’s Coffee And More. (Java Jo’z founder Roy Snowden recently pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion and faces a possible 30 years in prison.) Several alleged victims contended the company had merely changed its name to Cuppy’s to, in part, avoid refunding them $20K and $30K deposits they had paid the company. Cuppy’s adamantly contended they were a wholly new and independent company from Java Jo’z, and not responsible for the Java Jo’z liabilities.
The debate would certainly be of interest to anyone considering investing in a business opportunity with either Cuppy’s or Java Jo’z. As of a week or so ago, you could search “Cuppy’s Java Jo’z” on GOOGLE and find numerous links to discussions of the controvery. Today, the links exist, but clicking on any of the top 7 will result in error messages (See below). My guess would be that in a month or two these dead links will have disappeared from these pages entirely.
The lesson? A lack of controversy or negative comments in search engines or on the blogosphere is not evidence that controversy and negativity never - or doesn’t still - exist. It could, in fact, mean just the opposite.
TOP 7 SEARCH RESULTS FOR “Cuppy’s Java Jo’z” on GOOGLE
January 27, 2007
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Alex Scoble’s IT Notes - An Information Technology Blog: Why Java …
This is a problem for Cuppy’s and Java Jo’z that no amount of lawyers or legal … The saga of the franchise investors with Java Jo’z and Cuppy’s is, …
itmanager.blogs.com/notes/2007/01/why_java_joz_pr.html - 27k - Cached - Similar pages
[MESSAGE: Not Found: The requested URL /notes/2007/01/why_java_joz_pr.html was not found on this server.]
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Alex Scoble’s IT Notes - An Information Technology Blog: Is …
I posted on my FranBest.com blog, as did your brothers on their blogs, about the seeming connection between Cuppy’s and Java Jo’z. I received a threatening …
itmanager.blogs.com/notes/2007/01/is_cuppys_the_s.html - 27k - Cached - Similar pages
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[MESSAGE: Not Found The requested URL /notes/2007/01/is_cuppys_the_s.html was not found on this server.]
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Java Jo’z Controversy Gaining Attention Via Blogs | Blue MauMau
Assuming it is a note, Cuppy’s payments to Java Jo’z are likely being first … So I have created a forum called Cuppy’s Coffe and Java Jo’z that allows …
www.bluemaumau.org/general/story/java_joz_cuppys_controversy_gaining_attention_via_blogs - 108k - Cached - Similar pages
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Cuppy’s Coffee and Java Jo’z | Blue MauMau
The remarks from an article that was published here on Java Jo’z and Cuppy Coffee is continued in this forum.
www.bluemaumau.org/have_you_heard_about_this_franchise_concept/forum_topic/cuppy_coffee_and_java_joz - 91k - Cached - Similar pages
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Cuppy’s Coffee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cuppy’s was not “formerly Java Jo’z.” It has an application pending for the trademark “Cuppy’s” and grants franchises using its proprietary system. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuppy’s_Coffee - 21k - Cached - Similar pages
[Entries alleging a connection between Java Jo’z & Cuppy’s have been deleted]
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Ben Scoble’s Blog: Robert “Morg” Morgan, Java Jo’z and Cuppy’s
Robert “Morg” Morgan, Java Jo’z and Cuppy’s I was just thinking about my $30000.00. At the time I was dealing with Java Jo’z, Morg and Speed specifically …
bscoble.blogspot.com/2007/01/robert-morg-morgan-java-joz-and-cuppys.html - 39k - Cached - Similar pages
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Ben Scoble’s Blog: More legal issues with Java Joz
My partner and I entered into a contract with Java Joz in October 2005. … When we could not find a site for our shop we asked Java Joz for our deposit …
bscoble.blogspot.com/2006/12/now-i-am-becoming-more-vigilant.html - 38k - Cached - Similar pages
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3 opinions for Companies Can Purge Blogs & Search Engines of Controversy
Trisha A. Paliotti
Jan 29, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Cuppy’s and Java Jo’z
Ok well it seems the whole Cuppy’s / Java Jo’z whole world is going mad. How a company trying to avoid some much deserved bad press can go around deleting and rerouting url from blogs and legit web sites! I have been following all of this very closley mainly because I randomly Googled ROY Snowden , World Media International and Magazine sales crews, When I stumbled upon all this stuff going on with this man. I can not say that I was at all surprised. When working for him on the Mag crew I seen just how rotten and slimey he could be! Now all of these peoples lives are being negitivley impacted by his shaddy dealings. I personaly do not know why he is not being sued and / or investigated on all of these other alligations. Just goes to show you how our goverment spends its time chasing all the wrong criminals. This man should have ben in jail years ago.
So now Cuppy’s / Java Jo’z/ Medina Enterprises are going around and deleting all the negitive comments about them. Listen, these people bought a company from a convicted criminal, who they knew was involved in these shady practices. Roy Snowdens “friend” and ex partner is now part of this Cuppy’s but they say they have no affiliation w/ Java Jo’z or Roy Snowden and Kim Snowden. First of all hacking is illegal. Second how stupid do these people think the public are. I find it utterly humorus the comments and bloggs the “employee’s” are writing about this company….Hmmmm…all this brain washing sounds very familiar. Doesn’t it Roy. ANd the people who use to work for them and are blogging the truth they are dogging.
Only as an adult have I truly realized that there are people out there who do not have an honest bone in there body, some people are so obsessed w/ the love of money and lifestyle that they will trample on anyone to get it. I tink all of these people Roy Snowden, Kim Snowden, Ben Doyle, Medina Enterprises , Cuppy’s , Java Jo’z need to be further investigated.
Also this man who started all the Buzz about the scam and losing of money’s has dissapeared from the net. Either scared by a letter from the lawyers of these cowards threatning a law suite or quite possibly bought off. This country was founded on free speach and If this Ben Scoble is not a dunce he knows he can say anything he believes to be true in any forum he wants.
I am quite disgusted by this whole thing, I hope they all get what they deserve.
I personally feel what ever you put out there comes back to you ten fold!!! And when I was a scared 19 year old in a bus station in the ghetto of St. PAul w/ no mOney or bus ticket i prayed this man would someday get his. I can only hope that all of this bites him in the ass, “law of averages” says you can’t get away with everything forever.!
PLease read about this…and give me some feed back!!!
XXXXOOOOO
Kelly Busto
Oct 1, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Who Is This Ben Doyle?
CuppysHalfEmpty
Oct 2, 2007 at 5:43 am
More on Ben Doyle:
http://famousreviews.com/site_reviews/Business_Opportunities/Java_Joz.html
http://www.bluemaumau.org/java_joz_controversy_gaining_attention_blogs?page=2
http://www.franbest.com/?p=246
http://www.franchisepick.com/franchise-watch-java-jo’z-cuppy’s-coffee/
http://www.bluemaumau.org/java_joz_controversy_gaining_attention_blogs?page=3
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