Shit Happens 2! Reloaded!

This time I am not sorry for the profanity.

I opened IE 6 after many days and starting surfing some sites. And got infected with spyware.

I tried almost everything under the sun, but ultimately had to format the computer and reinstall Windows Xp.

Usually, I use Mozilla Firefox but sometime [when I feel like I shooting myself in the foot] I use IE6. (Don’t recommend me to upgrade to IE7, it sucks full time. One can’t afford a Super computer to run a browser). Shit happens! …

Shit Happens! Too Often!

Sorry for the profanity. But shit happens! Sometimes too often.

On 10th of this month I got paid by Linkworth. The amount while being not much (about $45), I tried to have it tranfered from my PayPal account to my ICICI bank account. In the morning, I tried to access the bank account through the online banking facility. My first attempt said that the username/password combination was wrong. [In fact, I had changed the password somedays back and I don't remember it now :: SAD ::]. I tried to login a couple of times more and BAM, my userID got locked!

Search engine spammers abound!

I remember a time when a highly professional spammer managed to get 4 billion spam pages indexed into Google’s index. Other search engines like Yahoo! and MSN indexed many millions of pages but to a much lesser extent when compared with Google. MSN (now Live!) [No pun intended!] was the least affected of all the three. That site was www.t1ps2see (dot) com.

These spam results started appearing on the top pages for many keywords and one can only imagine how many hits that site might have generated. Billions while it lasted. It was then that people started taking notice of what was happening. And within 14 days or so that site was completely deindexed…banned to be more precise.

Got approved by BlogRush

I applied for an account at www.BlogRush.com and got approved. [ The confirmation mail landed up in my spam box and I deleted in instinctively though ]

BlogRush is something like a traffic exchange program. However, it is much better than conventional blog traffic exchange programs.

In order to get more traffic, one has to write more catchy titles. Only then there is a chance that someone will click the links in the BlogRush widget. I will see how this goes and how much traffic I get. I will update the stats if possible…but later.

Where does Yahoo! work better than Google?

People often criticize Yahoo! saying that its search results are crap! At the same time, they claim that Google is foolproof and its search results are the best.

However, this is not always true. Search results in Yahoo! are at times much better than those of Google. For Google haters, this means that one can still surf the Internet without Google’s help.

I will prove my point. The other day, I was researching on “Abacus” so that I could gather more information of www.abacushome.info.

Here are the top 10 search results in Google: