I think you're right. It's even has interesting formatting in one paragraphs, and description that sounds like the ad.

    One of the first and best known academic ghost-writing web sites is

    SITENAME.com based out of Montreal, Canada. It’s been in business for nearly 20 years, longer than most.

It is and good pickup. That site has some really good pull and has managed to put itself in some really big name articles for pure seo purposes over the past couple years