Is the Internet Ready for Pay Per Use?

Large corporate telecommunication companies have been pushing for a pay for use charge on Internet access for years. They want that two tier Internet and will stop at nothing to implement it. The wolves are out to fleece the sheep. One particular large wolf, Frontier Communications Corp likes to be seen as a nice rural provider, but this is one of the largest telecoms in the nation. Providing services in 23 states for digital TV, broadband, and telephone services among others. Their goal is to charge users by use rather than flat monthly access. There goes the neighborhood.

Here is another site that comes in and ignores the robots.txt. They come in as a browser. It is not human, it is a robot and it is searching your site many times at once. This spider attacks your site and will pull down every page and link on your site multiple times. You can pass several gigs in a few minutes to these hogs. So who is Attributor?

Tek Talk, Jan 31, 2009
Hello there fans! Been a week since the great crash, or maybe I should say hack.

A horde of hackers got into a WordPress install and wiped out many sites on the server in accomplishing this. As we went through the sites restoring TekTalk database was destroyed in the process.

A Jun 2008 database was recovered and some posts will start to re-appear here that were important historically. Otherwise we will continue to report the latest events and news in the tech heavy world on this new install.

As we predicted months ago the Google’s deal with Yahoo is dead. Since it was never their intention to complete it is nothing to worry about for Google, but Yahoo’s Yang bet his stockholders equity on it. Now months later Jerry Yang admits the Microsoft deal is the best he could get. But Microsoft has gone stage left and whatever offer it may make will be far less than last spring.

When someone popped the message up in my Skype window with a link to Search Me I was not in the mood. I went there anyway as this was sent from a pretty cool artist. At first it looked like Cuil, the bandwidth hogs from hell, until I did a search.

Opinion
Yahoo tries to preempt government investigations into Google/Yahoo advertising deal with manipulated advertising returns

Yahoo held a three day press conference in Washington last week to defend its joining in the Google adsense network. At risk here is creating a search advertising monopoly that grants Google 80 percent of the online advertising for search returns. Google is being evil and Yahoo is desperate for those Adsense revenues.

Orwellian dreams come alive? It is anyone’s guess but the deal, as I am reading it now, seems to be that Yahoo is joining the Google Adsense affiliate network. This is probably the biggest set of sites that Google has signed on and Google is allowing them to break all the rules.

Waking up finding your site taken down for too many hits and too much bandwidth for weeks brought a mean introduction to Munax, Munax high performance. Munax the wannabee search engine whose manners mirror black hat attitude in a white hat world. Munax is a search engine that steals your bandwidth in huge chunks.

Yahoo stocks fate, after almost doubling in the three months since Microsoft placed its takeover bid for Yahoo, is set to tumble opening bell on Monday. An announcement by Steve Ballmer puts the deal in the bit bucket and sets Yahoo! stock up for a downturn to more reasonable levels.

The steamy price of Yahoo soared as expectations of a Microsoft takeover allowed new confidence in the oldest search engine on the Internet. But that steam is now gone as the price as reached beyond value and Microsoft has bowed out. Come Monday morning you might want to dump that stock before your neighbor.

Microsoft sent a warning to Jerry Yang at Yahoo to take the offer on the table or they will present the offer to the stockholders.

Microsoft is betting that the greed of the stockholders for the 60 percent premium on their shares during the present economic depression will make the offer work.