Working at Home on the Internet Webpage Archive

US Government Wants Googles Search Records

When I read the headline “Google rejects a White House query” in the Philadelphia Inquirer this morning, it peaked my interest. After I read the whole article, I began to get worried.

The US Government wants a list of All the Search Requests entered into Google Search’s engine for an as yet unspecified week. It also wants One Million randomly selected Web Addresses from various Google databases.

The pretext for this is to track Pornography and prove that Internet filters do not adequately prevent children from accessing objectional material. (I personally think it is the Parents Responsibility to Monitor what their children are doing Online).

Obtaining the information from Google would help the government “to understand the behavior of current Web Users, and to estimate how often Web Users encounter harmful-to-minor material in the course of their searches,” wrote the Justice Department in a brief filed Wednesday.

Although other unidentified Search Engines have complied with the Bush Administrations Subpoenas, Google Has Not. I applaud Google.

I am not (ashamedly) sure what Number Amendment covers the Right to Privacy, but I know that this is crossing the boundary of it’s intent. I wrote an article on my WAH Archive Blog that covered the Bush Administrations leap into the great abyss by ignoring the First Amendment.

If you Work at Home on the Internet, or use the Internet for your own enjoyment, this Will affect you.

I hope you will write your congressman(woman) if you agree that we are all slowly losing our rights.

Working at or from Home seems to be more popular than ever. Although people have always been able to Work Out of their House, ie. plummers, electricians, carpenters etc., it seems that more and more people opt to do their “regular” job at Home.

Five years ago, 38 million people world wide worked at home. By 2005 the number had reached 82 million. According to Gartner, Inc. a Stamford, CT based techonology research firm, that number could increase to 100 million people by 2008.

Workers from consultants to home health care professionals are better able to run a business from home with the improvements in technology. Since most companies have a Web portal to conduct business, and more people have access to the internet, it is easier to conduct business from remote locations.

The opportunites are open to just about anyone with Internet Access. The Work at Home Mom, the Professional Writer, the Computer Consultant can all find ways to conduct business from home. Now, more than ever before, the means to start a Home Based Business are available to those who have always wanted to become independent.

If you are one that has dreamed of becoming self-employed, you may want to start Before the Other 100 Million get into the act.

For your convience:
E-Mail Questions

This is an article I found in the online version of Reporters without Borders. And you think Working at Home Online is trying here in the U.S.?

Journalist and blogger Ahmad Reza Shiri will have a permanent threat hanging over him as a result of the suspended sentence of three years in prison handed down by a court in the northern city of Mashad on 8 January, Reporters Without Borders said today. He was reportedly accused of writing articles in his blog calling for a boycott of last February’s legislative elections.

“Suspended sentences are often used to silence journalists who bother the authorities,” the press freedom organisation said. “The fact that this type of sentence has now been applied to a blogger shows the importance that weblogs have assumed in Iranian society.”
Shiri said he was arrested in February 2004 and spent 21 days in detention because of what he had written in his previous blog, Iran Azad (Free Iran). In June 2004, a Mashad court gave him a suspended sentence of a year in prison. The authorities also closed down his blog and confiscated his computer. But he started up another blog a few months later.

He told Reporters Without Borders that this month’s conviction is directly linked to the first one. He said the intelligence ministry asked for his case to be retried on the basis of new charges, including the fact that he gave interview to foreign radio stations. So the case was retried by another Mashad judge and this time he got a three-year suspended sentence. He will have to serve the sentence in prison if he gets into any kind of trouble with the authorities during the next five years.

This is not supposed to be a political commentary, but it seems that the bigger the World Wide Web becomes it is increasingly difficult to differenciate between politics and working on the Internet.

credit: Reporters sans frontieres

All of these services are FREE to start. Links are provided for you to investigate and determine which service is best for you.

Freestats… It is the first counter I encountered and started using just to get statistics on page views. It is Ok for beginners, they give daily and weekly stats. Unique and combined. They also give Raw data for one day, to see where your views originated. You need to sign up for different accounts for any additional pages. This makes viewing stats for individual accounts cumbersome. If you need more information, upgrades available for a fee.

StatCounter… This is the counter I just started using. It gives you more statistics for each inquiry. You can view time, date, url, viewer stats eg. city, country, IP address, browser. There are stats for unique, new and repeat viewers. You can have multiple pages on one account, this makes viewing and comparing stats for individual sites and pages very easy. The current statistics only cover the most recent 100 page views, not visitors. Although I have just started with this service, I am quite satisfied so far. Upgrades are available for a fee.

SiteMeter… Although I have not tried this one personally, I have heard good things about the service. They offer all the regular stats, but do not limit you to 100 page views, rather they report on the last 100 unique visitors. They also report page ranking. This is good for someone who has multiple pages on one site. It shows which page someone entered the site, this could help in determining Ad placement for better CTR’s. Upgrades are available for a fee.

Google Analytics… This is a premier counter and analytics service. It will integrate with your AdWords account, if you have one. Unfortunately, it is by invitation only at this time. You can sign up now, and when they open for business again, you may be picked from the list.