Monthly Archives: April 2007

I believe Brady Quinn will still go to the Browns

Okay, so I am watching the NFL draft. Yes, I can’t believe people spend 15 min, especially in the first round for each pick.
However, this is turning out to be a very interesting high tension drama. I honestly thought that Brady Quinn was the best QB in this years draft and the #2 prospect overall [...]

Google launches Google Web History Service

Google is promoting a new service today called the Google Web History Service. While technically this feature has been around for a long time, Google for the first time is promoting this service. You need to have a Google Account to sign in and be able to use this service.
With the Google Web History Service, [...]

Awesome Picture of Absolut Hacker

Absolutely love this picture. Check it out on a *nix console

Google Adsense Referral program expanding to include Non-Google products?

Google Adsense referral program allowed publishers and webmasters the opportunity to earn additional revenue by exposing their visitors to high quality products offered by Google. Traditionally such product referrals included Google AdSense (Ad revenue for web publishers), Google AdWords (Targeted online advertising), Google Checkout (A faster, safer way to shop online), Google Apps (Communication and collaboration tools for businesses and [...]

Google adds a URL Removal tool for Webmasters

Google Sitemaps is an excellent tool used by a lot of webmasters out there including us at AskStudent.  As a webmaster, you would always want to exercise greater control over what is indexed by the search engines. For this purpose, most of use a robots.txt file or robots meta tag to tell the search engine [...]

Tips to identify a spam message and protect yourself from Spam

Spam comes in a variety of forms, including fraudulent messages. This mass-messaging is called ’spoofing’ or ‘password phishing.’
Such fraudulent practices involve messages that appear to be from a legitimate source, or the creation of an official-looking webpage that asks you to provide your username and password or other personal information. Such messages or pages could [...]

My first Russian Comment Spam. I am going International

Sweet… I just got my first comment spam in Russian.

Apparantly, they are promoting a site selling MP3 songs. Here is the translation of the Russian in the above comment spam to English. Google Translate did a pretty good job…
The latest site with MP3 songs. Here you will be able to download different mp3 free. Our [...]

Lottery Award Promotional Programme

This email definitely takes the Outstanding spam email award in my opinion so far… so far.
The reason I saw i saw its outstanding is because of the effort that went into creating this spam email. I have checked a couple of Lotteries and the Ref File number, the batch number etc are all pretty well [...]

The Coca Cola Company Promotion Prize Award: Spam Email

One of the most popular articles on my blog continues to be the “I won the Microsoft Lottery Award” article. Another popular spam email doing the rounds these days in the Coca Cola Company Promotion Prize Award.
This spam email comes from a certain Mrs. Kate Hudson of the Coca Cola Company.  This spam email is [...]

How to add an “Advertise on this site” with Google Adsense for your website

A lot of websites and blogs including at AskStudent, we run Google Adsense to serve targetted advertising to our visitors. However, for a site getting a lot of visitors, think about this: How many of them are potential advertisers for your site?
At AskStudent, where our primary audience is students and teenagers, there are a lot of [...]