Spam Down 75% After ISPs Shut Down Host
Maybe you've been inundated by emails from spammers like Pills-pay .com or Pay4pills .com in the past? No longer. Worldwide spam is down 75% since Tuesday, when a Washington Post investigation led Internet service-providers Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric to shut down San Jose, California Web host McColo. The Post says McColo also hosted child pornography, but that its unclear if the hosting firm will be held responsible for the crimes of its clients:
World's Second-Largest Search Engine Starts Selling Ads
Google makes its billions selling ads against its text search results, charging marketers per click. Now its trying the same thing with YouTube, reports the Times:
An advertiser — or a video maker who wants to promote a work — can bid on keywords like “silly cats,” “financial crisis,” “James Bond,” or anything that strikes one’s fancy. The promoted videos are featured on the right-hand side of the YouTube search-results page with a small image and some text.Advertisers are charged when a viewer clicks on the ad, and can set a maximum price per click that they want to pay.
Smart move. Did you know YouTube alone sees more search queries than all of Yahoo's properties and more than twice as many as Microsoft's?
Microsoft's Windows 7 Another Dud?
The first reviews of Microsoft's Windows 7 are coming in, and for Windows fans hoping Microsoft would fix the problems that have plagued the unpopular Vista, it doesn't look good. InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy analyzes the next Windows (an early release) and skewers the product.
Windows 7 is "lipstick on a pig," he charges, the same old slow Vista with a cosmetic makeover:
Windows 7 is in fact just a repackaging of Windows Vista... Key processes look and work much like they do under Vista, and preliminary benchmark testing shows that Windows 7 performs right on a par with its predecessor. Frankly, Windows 7 is Vista, at least under the hood; if nothing else, this should translate into excellent backward compatibility with Vista-certified applications and drivers.
Except that it might not. The M3 build of Windows 7 breaks all sorts of things that, frankly, it shouldn't be breaking.
Ouch. But we'd like to offer a few points in Microsoft's defense: Windows 7 remains in pre-beta, with a late 2009 release (and rumors circulate the product may get delayed to 2010).
Thanks for your post.
ReplyDeleteWhen I used to check my email account two years back, there were lots of spam. But now, there is almost none. I didn't know they stopped it. But now that I know they are acting more strongly against the spamming servers, I expect to get even less of them.
Keep posting, you are like a breath of fresh air.
Wow! 75% from one single server? What a waste of resources...all kinds of resources.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good news Anand. Hope they keep it spam free.
ReplyDeleteGoogle's strategy is one of the best. No wonder almost every initiative of theirs make money. What's more impressive is when they debuted Yahoo was in the lead.
Vista is a lousy OS. I don't know about its technical efficiency and performance but for a common user like me, it makes things terribly difficult. It's not as user friendly and effective as XP.
I haven't used Vista much, but I read that its the perception not the substance, of Vista, that is not good.
ReplyDeleteWindows 7 claims to have lots new, but we will have to wait to see what it offers!
One of my friends said that Vista uses too much space, is that so?
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