The only thing which has changed in our benefit is that the ad code is not 4kB but 3. Probably they stopped using the Prototype framework which is so uncool anyway, I would have expect something more from them. Oh, wait, that’s more than 1kB, so that can’t be.
Another thing which didn’t get changed is our ad codes. When a user loads a page, the browser makes a request to the old googlesyndication domain, which then bounces (redirect, nerds) the connection the googleads.g.doubleclick.net. Since redirecting always costs load-time, some of the pages I manage and has AdSense ads implemented, now loads with almost 300ms slower. Per ad code. Thanks to the redirection I guess, since the file size is smaller I see no other plausible reason. You may say that 300 milliseconds is not a big deal. But what if a publisher has three AdSense ads on a page? That’s legal. 3 times 300 makes 900 additional milliseconds, let’s say a second. One second additional is a big deal for the website owners!
On another side of the note, can somebody explain for me, why the Flash ads have errors in them and I get the debugger popping up all the time? And when did I opt in for Flash ads anyway? I opted in for “Image and Text ads”, Flash ads are something else guys. At least if they would look cool…

As an end note, can somebody enlighten me why do I see only and only Google Chrome ads, anywhere I go?

ENDEAVOUR TO USED IT FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD

Mrs Susan fernando.
I am the above named person from Kuwait. I am married to Dr SAZON FERNANDO
who worked with Kuwait embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he
died in the year 2005.We were married for eleven years without a child. He
died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. Before his
death we were both born again Christians.Since his death I decided not to
re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is
against.When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of 18Million
Dollars (eighteen Million United State Dollars) with one finance/security
company in Amsterderm-Netherlands. Presently
This money is still with the
Security Company. Recently
my Doctor told me that I would not last for
the next three months due to cancer problem. Though what disturbs me most
is my stroke sickness. Having known my condition I decided to donate this
Fund to church or better still a christian individual that will utilize
this money the way I am going to instruct here in. I want a church that
will use this funds to fund churches
orphanages and widows propagating the
word of God and to ensure that the house of God is maintained. The Bible
made us to understand that Blessed is the hand that giveth. I took this
decision because I don’t have any child that will inherit this money and
my husband relatives are not Christians and I don’t want my husband’s
hard
earned money to be misused by unbelievers. I don’t want a situation where
this money will be used in an ungodly manner. Hence the reason for taking
this bold decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am
going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS
14 says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace. I
don’t need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health
and because of the presence of my husband’s relatives around me always. I
don’t want them to know about this development. With God all things are
possible. As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of
the Finance/Security Company in Amsterderm-Netherlands. I will also issue
you a letter of authority that will prove you as the original- beneficiary
of this Funds. I want you and the church to always pray for me because the
lord is my shephard. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy
Christian. Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit
and truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life. Any delay in
your reply will give me room in sourcing for a church or christian
individual for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act
accordingly as I stated herein. Hoping to hearing from you. I have set
aside 20% for you and for your time and 10% for any enpense if there is
any . Remain blessed in the name of the Lord. Yours in Christ
Mrs. susan fernando
Note: reply email to mrssusan2008@aim.com

Basically, all I have to do is to email back to an “agent” with some of my, personally identifiable details.

I might even answer, let’s see what they say. Below is the message:

PRIZE/PROMOTION AWARD DEPT.
LOTTO NL.

CATEGORY “A” WINNER
Ref No: TYM-101/8231
Batch Number: NL 80 OS 94144448
Amount Won: $2,500,000.00

Dear Internet User

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lotto NL. Internet
Promotional Draws. All email addresses entered for this promotional draws were
randomly inputted from an internet resource database using the Synchronized
Random Selection System (SRSS).

Your email address was selected in the Category “A” with Reference
Number TYM-101/8231, and this qualifies you to be the recipient of the grand
prize award sum of $2,500,000 (Two million, five hundred thousand dollars). The
payout of this cash prize to you will be subject to the final validations and
satisfactory report that you are the bonafide owner of the winning email
address.

In line with the governing rules of claim, you are required to establish
contact with your designated claims agent via email or telephone with the
particulars below:

Name: Mr.Frank van Boss
Phone: +31-647-283-937
Email: deptfvanboss@yahoo.cn

You are advised to call the Claims agent for confirmation or provide the
following information for processing the payment of your cash award.

DATA PROFILE
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
Winning Reference Number:

Failure to complete the claims of your cash prize after 14 days of this notice
will result in the revision of award. Hence, you should commence your claims
process immediately, by contacting the claims agent (Mr. Frank van Boss) who would
be guiding you through the Claims process.

Congratulations on your Winning Prize and we look forward to completing your
payout soon.

Yours Faithfully,
Sarah E. Cabrera
Lottery Co-ordinator

I need some enlightenment guys. First, what’s a “Synchronized Random Selection System” and what is synchronized with what? Secondly, why didn’t you choose a lower sum, don’t you think 2.5 million US dollar is a bit, well, weird?

I will report back to let you know what happened.

cPanel is good for beginner server administrators, but for professionals it’s like a WYSWYG editor for the web-developers. It’s good cos it’s simple to use, bad, because it adds one more daemon process to the persistent processes list, which is less than ideal for servers which are bombarded with so many connections like the Google servers.

Another thing which is interesting: as I stated above cPanel makes setting up web-servers extremely easy. But why do Google need this help when the employment requirements for a server administrator job are the following :

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3 - 5 years experience with UNIX systems administration (5-15 years for Senior position).
• Solid scripting skills in Shell, PHP, Perl or Python.
• Proven technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience.
• Experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment.
• Ability to handle periodic on-call duty as well as out-of-band requests.
• Tack-sharp analytical abilities.
• A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Fluent written communication and unusual verbal agility are strong assets.
• SQL experience a plus, MySQL a plus.
• Experience leading short projects involving outside teams is a plus.

The picture was taken when we typed “google.com” in the address-bar of Firefox and we resolved to that page. This can be caused by they putting the server too fast in the cluster, even before they could mirror the homepage’s software.

I’m not social at all. I rather search 2 weeks to read an acceptable answer for my question instead asking someone to answer that question, but I thought I make an exception and ask the infamous engineers one-two things.
Can I say I have two favorite Google engineers? OK, so I have two favorite Google engineers; the first is Matt Cutts because we both hate spam and fishing … sorry, phishing and we both love cats. Ok, I don’t but it sounds cool. The second engineer is Adam Lasnik. He’s a search evangelist, whatever that means. But he seems to be cool and also hates spam, so I rather sympathize him than don’t.

OK, I asked 5 simple questions for them. Most of them were towards any engineer, one for Matt and one for Adam. I list 3 questions here and a short explanation for each question:

1. Do you plan in the near future any webmaster meeting in the central or generally in EU?
   I asked this cos I would really like to go to a such meeting and I think many of us would like to see the almighty Googlers, ask a few questions for them or just simply attack them because their site is not listed in Google or got penalized. Not a hard question, I’d even accept an “I don’t know”, but no, Adam seems to ignore me…
2. This bugs me for ages: Can you check the users’ MAC address? I’ve read somewhere that you can, if so hat off…
   Well, the myth says it’s technically impossible, but some ‘great’ webmasters say it IS possible. I just want a confirmation from an authoritative source, nothing more. Nonetheless to say that I wouldn’t publish it on the internet that Google is able to check users’ MAC address. OK, maybe I would but it’s not my intention at the moment
3. Take this query: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en=investigation@fdic.gov The query’s first 6 result is a forged 404, not good for the user. Can something be made against this? While others are posting useful content, those are like spam: useless
   Oh why, oh why do you list almighty Google custom 404 pages with almost no content when good webmasters have good content? Please tell me! You say to make pages for the users, I think good webmasters really follow this way and we create useful pages for the users and what we get? We get pushed down to the 15th place just because the first 14 result is a custom 404 page. How did we hurt you, to get this harsh punishment?

While I don’t think this article will change anything, I had to let the steam off. I also realize that both Matt and Adam are extremely busy Googlers and when they finish their work, they have their own, personal life.
But, Google Moderator has been created to get questions answered. I really appreciate the approach, truly. But if we ask questions and no one answers them, what’s the point?