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benchmarketing 

The act of promoting software or hardware by publishing bogus benchmarks with cooked up numbers that makes the product look better than its predecessors and the competition.

As an advanced technique, have some blogger push the numbers instead of putting it out in a press release.
Our test suite shows it's 5% faster!

... benchmarketing at work.
benchmarketing by nkill March 17, 2009
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Benchmarking 

The systematic process of becoming no better than anyone else.
After all the benchmarking we have done, I think we can finally boast that we are an LCD company.
Benchmarking by scanner1 June 5, 2011

Benchmarking 

To sit or be sitting on a bench or couch with no pants on.
"Gross dude! You're benchmarking my new sofa" -Will KitZel
Benchmarking by Will KitZel February 25, 2011