Working at Home on the Internet Webpage Archive

Originally on Working at Home on the Internet Blog & Webpage…
Saturday January 28, 2006

 

New 90 Day Policy for AdSense

Today I found out that Google’s AdSense referral program has changed. It was, when I started using them, a good deal. Refer someome to AdSense and you get $100 after the referee made their first $100.

Now it seems, without notice, they changed it to $100 if your referee makes $100 within 90 days. I know from experience that a new AdSense account takes time to build, much longer than 3 months.

I don’t know how they expect anyone or any company to continue referring people if they know that the likelyhood of getting payment is nill. Originally, I put the AdSense referral chicklet in the sidebar to help my readers find a legitimate way to make money with their Blog or Web page.

I still feel that it could help someone financially by signing up for the AdSense program. Although I have not made any money from the referrals, I have determined that it should remain on my Blog.

Hopefully, this will still give people the opportunity to make money online.

So, Click away, and hope that you make $100 in the first 3 months for both our sakes.

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.