Bing Trying To Make Web Porn Free

Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, is trying to make web almost porn free by not allowing users to search using sexually explicit terms. The search engine, as in the screen shot, only displays a warning message when you search using those terms, stating that the search may return sexually explicit content and will ask you to change the search term.

This is a very brave step from Microsoft eventhough it may effect the user rating of Bing. It would have been nice to show this message as a warning and add a link below it to show the search results or ask them to sign in to verify their age. This way Bing can spread an awareness among the users without much effect on their rankings. Otherwise, people looking for some hot action, as they say, will ignore this search engine.

Another negative aspect of this step from Bing is that medical students who are doing research on these subjects will find it difficult to agree to the justifications of Microsoft.

How this will effect the ambition of Microsoft to overtake the search giant Google, we will have to wait and watch to find out.

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Micheal Jackson Causes Twitter to Crash

Micheal Jackson, the pop singer, caused the famous microblogging site Twitter.com to crash. Fans, of the pop sensation who died on friday, poured into Twitter to pay tribute to their favourite singer. The server overload caused Twitter to crash ultimately denying access to millions of users.

The search giant Google also felt the heat as it struggled to keep up to the server requests from millions of users who searched about the legend singer. Google believed it to be part of the virus attack the happened in 2005 and for the first 25 minutes even gave a message stating that the search term may bring up maliculous sites. This was due to the fact that in june 2005, a virus spread through e-mails claiming that Michael Jackson had suicided because of the allegations raised against him.

Various news sites also reported record breaking hits on Michael Jackson's death. The news that Michael Jackson had been hospitalised was read by more than 800 Thousand people in Yahoo News. The record for most read article in Yahoo news is also claimed by Michael Jackson's death. Around 16.4 million people read the article leaving behind the record of 15.1 million claimed on the day when Barack Obama was elected as the President Of America. Around 1.75 billion articles about Micheal Jackson's death was read all along the internet.

Even after his death, Micheal Jackson proved that he really is the King Of Pop.

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Earn more from Adsense by removing low paying ads

Google uses web crawlers to index content from a site in the form of search results. These data are known as scrapings. This is a fair and legal use of others content for indexing. But some illegal sites, which are made for making money from adsense ads, uses these kinds of scraps from sites having highly searched keywords and plagiarizes as their own. Such sites are known as Made For Adsense (MFA) sites. They use scraped content to generate high-revenue clicks from unknown users who believe it to be legitimate site. MFA sites advertise in Adwords for as low as $0.01 - $0.05 per click and can seriously affect the reputation of your site. Think of a scenario when a visitor of your site clicks on an Adsense ad and is taken to a scraper site like Everyrule.com which claims great offers on a host of products. But every link that shows up on the site is an Adsense ad, which when clicked is an Adsense click for the webmaster of Everyrule.

This is where AdsBlackList (ABL) comes to the help. This is a website which provides a list of MFA sites which can be used to block them from showing up on your site as an Adsense ad. Besides Google Adsense, ABL also supports Yahoo Publisher Networks and Chitika eMinimalls.There are 3 types of account available to you (Member, Premier Member and Premier+ Member). The basic membership with ABL is completely free, and will enable you to gather a list of 50 of the highest ranked MFA/LCPC sites. Premier members have the option of generating the full 200 sites to copy to their filter list. Premier+ members can not only generate the full 200 sites, but they can also manage their Adsense accounts via the AdsBlackList site... allowing the automatic update of filter lists when new & related MFA sites are listed. During BETA testing, ALL users have access to 200 sites per list.To Add a domain to your account Registered member can also use a feature called Domain Checker which allows you to quickly query a domain against the ABL database. It will return one of the following options:

• Not in ABL - This domain has not been blacklisted. You can click "Report" in order to quickly process a blacklist application.
• Pending - The domain exists in the database but has not yet been confirmed as MFA or LCPC.
• Blacklisted - The domain is blacklisted via user votes. You can click "Info" to see information relating to the site status within ABL.
• Admin Blacklisted - The domain is blacklisted and confirmed by ABL Administrators.
• Admin Locked - The domain you entered is part of a whitelist controlled by ABL Administrators. The domain can NOT be blacklisted under any circumstances.

On the left hand side of the AdsBlackList homepage you can find the Top 30 MFA sites. Visit any one of the 30 sites and find out what AdsBlackList is all about.

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