Search Sites Care About Privacy?

After Google began to improve its ranking as the worst web site with respect to privacy, other search engines quickly followed.

Yahoo! only cut a few months from Google's expiration times to get ahead. Microsoft, on the other hand, joined hands with Ask in calling for a standard in privacy policies. Ask went even further with their own policy, announcing a tool that will let users have almost complete control over what data is gathered about them (AskEraser press release).

Wow, I wouldn't have believed this would happen, had someone predicted it a few months ago. I wish other web industries would follow, but this is a start, certainly.

Can you trust AdSense?

After reading many articles (eg. Google AdSense Account Disabled) about how people lost their AdSense accounts I decided to see for myself. I created an account and placed the ads on a couple of low traffic sites I'm administering (including this one for now at least). I don't think they'll generate a lot of revenue (any in fact), but I'd like to see if it works.

I read a few articles, which gave various suggestions on how to keep your account, for instance How to ensure your AdSense account will not be cancelled, and Review on AdSense. And, in case something bad happens: Banned by Google AdSense?

Too bad I don't have a proper site with traffic to test this more properly. I'll have to try adding content to my site and getting other sites to link to it more. While at it I'll also test the Google Webmaster Tools.

Tranquility

Something's certain, when you spend a tenday in forest: you have time to think.

I can't remember half my thoughts, but here are some examples: how governments could and should optimize the use of natural resources through taxation; what linux I should next switch to; what data structure to choose for nearly empty arrays with fast lookup in mind; how on earth lua actually stores it's tables; which is faster of Fluxbox and IceWM...


Found iGoogle today. I mean, I was aware of it, I just hadn't tried it before. As my old home page was Gmail, I decided to swich to iGoogle, where in addition to new mail, I see news and weather. Convinient...