Are people confusing Gulf Oil with the gulf spill?

Are people confusing Gulf Oil with the gulf spill? was Originally Posted on June 9, 2010 by lavarock

When you hear the words Gulf Oil Spill or just Oil Spill, do you think og Gulf Oil Company or BP?

My unscientific guess is BP! DUH! So does BP’s move explanation make sense?

BP has spent (I’m sure) many thousands of dollars to search engines such as Google so that “oil spill”, “volunteer” and “claims” will direct them to BP’s website rather than other sites. BP said it wanted to help people who were trying to access information on the BP website to find it more readily, rather than intending to draw away hits from other sites.

So, they are not trying to hurt other sites, just clear up which site is theirs. Lets see how hard it is to find the real BP site… it turns out to be BP.COM. Could it get any easier?

The largely green and white BP.com website has a large red button at its center highlighting the “Gulf of Mexico Response.” The right hand side of the response site has a list of buttons advertising information on claims.

I don’t see it getting any easier to find than going to their website and clicking the button.

My guess is that didn’t need to buy any keywords UNLESS they want to make sure that lawyers and anti-BP sites lose business.

I can’t imagine any other reason.