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Archives for the 'The Net' Category

Cashing in with craigslist.com

In the interests of providing more quality articles to my readers (at last count, I had 1, quality post that is, I have no readers. Might be connected to the appalling grammar, I don’t know.), I posted this ad on craigslist.com:

Title: (writing gigs) Write for Nothing!
Write me an article and, if I like it, I [...]

7 June 2007 | The Net | Comments Off

Google is Busted

Shocking but true, Google appears to be black listing web sites. Its the sort of thing that makes me cringe and, incidently, switch my default search to Yahoo, which is probably guilty of the same.
Proof:
Supression of somethingawful.com, a completely humourless website, but still, is that any reason to blacklist it?
Supression of results for a [...]

6 June 2007 | The Net | Comments Off

Interstitual Angst

I sometimes read a humour site called somethingawful.com. I clicked on a link today and was sent to an interstitual. An interstitual is advertiser speak for a bait and switch advertising method used on more annoying web sites. You go to catsRus.com and click on “view cute kittens” and instead of sending you to their [...]

7 December 2006 | The Net | Comments Off