Support sites that protect your privacy and limit government access to it.
Pretty simple statement but not easy to do even with the variety of competing search engines. For example for Newslookup.com I can tell you that your search results tracking, logs and personally indentifiable information is regularly purged. There are other search engines that also make this claim however many sites use a 3rd party to display Ads. With every page display the Ad serving company will have logged the referring link from the page which includes your search term.
There are just so many levels at which you can be tracked and your private data can become public. In most cases I am against government regulation but I believe companies should be required to purge personally identifiable information along with tighter restrictions and penalities should private information be revealed.
It is likely the reverse will happen and perhaps that is an opportunity for competition where a cookie free news search engine with third party Ad serving such as Newslookup.com will benefit:)
It is always good to see new competition in this market and it is a good start considering you do not have a billion dollars behind you. I and I know others have been frustrated with Google web search results these last 6 months and competition has been disappointing. This is a good time for you and others to build upon this opening in the market.
I can relate to the Mozdex as an alternative in that you are competing by offering unique options along with data/ethics/privacy. This is very similiar to what we do at Newslookup.com for the niche news search engine market.
I guess that would be wishful thinking since it would take a major depression and the rabid free trade zealots to be thrown out of Congress and the White House for China's permanent MFN to be repealed.
You are assuming and allowing Microsoft to dictate your patch and risk management process. When it should be up to the business on which patches to apply and at what time. Meaning if you really need the fix before the month is up you should have the option to apply it.
Just because you chose run your business in this manner should not mean we are all forced to in the same way.
btw - yes I feel your pain.
It has been a little over 2 years of this failed monthly update policy which was suppossed to be pre-empted for issues such as this. When they switched to monthly updates I remember one of the comments being it was at the request of overworked IT managers that wanted the ease of a single patch. You think they would have figured out by now that the user base they had listened to was completely incompetent in the first place.
Is this the company you want to trust your IT infrastructure with not to mention the outrageous TCO of supporting MS?
"Why aren't they simply blocking google using robots.txt if they don't want to be listed?"
They do not want to risk their content being dropped from the archive. But if they make enough noise I believe they hope to extort some money from Google for online photos.
Slashdot has less exposure than Google news due to the fact they are not using a photo with the news article. Since bots can easily be restricted through the robots.txt standard I do not see this issue going anywhere.
The entire German.de site shut down for just a few mentions of a name out of 341,000 articles. Thank God we could not imagine this happening here in the US. Those that love to bash the US both here and abroad should take note.
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Support sites that protect your privacy and limit government access to it. Pretty simple statement but not easy to do even with the variety of competing search engines. For example for Newslookup.com I can tell you that your search results tracking, logs and personally indentifiable information is regularly purged. There are other search engines that also make this claim however many sites use a 3rd party to display Ads. With every page display the Ad serving company will have logged the referring link from the page which includes your search term.
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There are just so many levels at which you can be tracked and your private data can become public. In most cases I am against government regulation but I believe companies should be required to purge personally identifiable information along with tighter restrictions and penalities should private information be revealed.
It is likely the reverse will happen and perhaps that is an opportunity for competition where a cookie free news search engine with third party Ad serving such as Newslookup.com will benefit
It is always good to see new competition in this market and it is a good start considering you do not have a billion dollars behind you. I and I know others have been frustrated with Google web search results these last 6 months and competition has been disappointing. This is a good time for you and others to build upon this opening in the market.
I can relate to the Mozdex as an alternative in that you are competing by offering unique options along with data/ethics/privacy. This is very similiar to what we do at Newslookup.com for the niche news search engine market.
Good luck!
I guess that would be wishful thinking since it would take a major depression and the rabid free trade zealots to be thrown out of Congress and the White House for China's permanent MFN to be repealed.
You are assuming and allowing Microsoft to dictate your patch and risk management process. When it should be up to the business on which patches to apply and at what time. Meaning if you really need the fix before the month is up you should have the option to apply it. Just because you chose run your business in this manner should not mean we are all forced to in the same way. btw - yes I feel your pain.
It has been a little over 2 years of this failed monthly update policy which was suppossed to be pre-empted for issues such as this. When they switched to monthly updates I remember one of the comments being it was at the request of overworked IT managers that wanted the ease of a single patch. You think they would have figured out by now that the user base they had listened to was completely incompetent in the first place. Is this the company you want to trust your IT infrastructure with not to mention the outrageous TCO of supporting MS?
Not sure if it was intentional but your site does not have an email contact. I was/am curious what site your are trying to get listed?
"Why aren't they simply blocking google using robots.txt if they don't want to be listed?" They do not want to risk their content being dropped from the archive. But if they make enough noise I believe they hope to extort some money from Google for online photos.
Slashdot has less exposure than Google news due to the fact they are not using a photo with the news article. Since bots can easily be restricted through the robots.txt standard I do not see this issue going anywhere.
The entire German .de site shut down for just a few mentions of a name out of 341,000 articles. Thank God we could not imagine this happening here in the US. Those that love to bash the US both here and abroad should take note.