I never said that linkedin or google were spamming. All I was saying is that they are slightly evil and annoying. I'm also not sure I agree with your assessment of the techcrunch reviews.
By my count the company fronting the content has something like ~100 million machine-generated pages polluting the internet as of 6 months ago, being hosted and re-hosted under dozens of different domains. At what point does it become spam in your opinion?
