The New Freedom

Monday, February 12th, 2007...11:23 pm

Playing With Search Engines

I’ve been playing with some of Google’s services. I’m really big on passive income (money without having to do any work), and Google’s AdSense program seems like a pretty good way to do that. To try to generate some clicks, I’ve come up with a few custom search engines.

The first is Wiiggle, a search engine for Nintendo Wii-related things. It can find some shady stuff like backups and hacks and modchips and that type of thing, as well as legitimate news, reviews and information. Give it a shot, search for Mario News or Zelda ISO.

The second is Too Much Detail, a search engine for high definition pornography. It works pretty well, if you’re into that sort of thing. Which you probably are.

Speaking of Google, those of you with Gmail or Personal Homepage accounts might have noticed the My Search History link in the top right. I seriously suggest going in there and stop all of your searches being recorded by a big scary company for mysterious reasons. Google == The NSA.

I’ve been talking with Ross Lichtenberg about creating a calender for concerts in the Boston area. I’d like to make it an account-based wiki, so it’s easy for house shows in Allston to list their upcoming events. I want to do this (and the other half-finished projects) soon, but school and friends and other silly things are getting in the way.

Oh, and I’ve added a Projects tab at the top. Soon, there’ll be one for Programs and one for Video.

In a major act of irony, the Henry Rollins video I had embeded on the About page has been taken off of YouTube by pressure from the industry. Fortunately, I backed it up the day before and will upload it and host it myself. I thought YouTube was a shithole before, but now you can’t even look at the decent clips, people won’t stick around. Remember how people bounced around from Napster to Kazaa to a million other P2P services? People always flock to where they find the most freedom. YouTube’s policy of hosting everything and then taking copyrighted videos down after complaints, rather than hosting after initial approval, is what separated them from their competitors initially, but now it’s starting to hurt them. I doubt people will stick around. Zudeo, anybody?

Namaste.