Microsoft has announced the launch of Live Search Cashback, where it creates a medium for advertisers to advertise their products at MSN Live search, the advertiser only have to pay if sales  happen after the clicks. From user side of view, the shoppers on MSN Live may get to save money on purchase, as the slogan is Search, Shop, Save.

It may seems to benefits both side, but for me, but who benefits the most? My guess is not advertiser nor customers but Microsoft.

1. Microsoft encourage users to use msn search for purchase products online, where it increase the web traffics flow to it's search engine. You may want to check the web traffics statistics at www.alexa.com. Compare live.com, google.com and yahoo.com. live.com is only 60% of google or yahoo. That makes me guess what they want from this cashback strategy is web traffics.
2. Microsoft try to drag the attention of the advertisers, where they provides a risk-free advertising plan to them, and giving cash back to customers. From there, Microsoft has gain more advertisers as well as more web traffics on products search, which consequently increase the market share.
   

   
   

Impacts

Live Search Cashback will be a thread to google adsense as well as other web advertising company, consequently worries webmasters and bloggers who make livings from writing blogs through placing ads. If Pay per sales becomes the trend, their earning will drops exponentially.

By the way, these are only my opinion on the matters, TechCrunch has done a wonderful jobs on Analysis of Microsoft Live Search Cashback

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On May 27th 2008, Wordpress will turn 5 years old. Wordpress is a very famous open source blog publishing system written in PHP developed by Matt Mullenweg. The latest release is 2.5.1 which released on 25 April 2008.

Because of the fame, wordpress blog are also targeted by many of the crackers trying hard to exploit through PHP, SQL injection. Therefore there are many bloggers prefers to stay with google blogspot instead of hosting wordpress at any web hosting servers.

By the way, Wordpress is still done a very good job as it produce a very good blog publishing system, and I still look forward to them making Wordpress more solid against those security crackers.

They are having birthday party at San Francisco, check out the venue here.

Happy Birthday Wordpress! :)

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You can download a lots of ebook from the internet, if you know where and how. You may already know some site to hunt for the books, but I want to share mine here.

http://www.pdfchm.com is really a huge store of ebooks, mostly technical books. You can register an account from there and download 3 ebooks within 48 hours for free. Meaning that for every 48 hours interval, you can only download for 3 ebooks, so schedule your download well.

You may find your ebook at http://www.pdfchm.com with book title, author or publisher, but you may not peek at the content until you download it. Therefore, I am here to introduce you another site where you can read the books online without needing to download it.

http://books.google.com, place your keywords of the topic you wanna search, and google will return you the ebook links. Click and start reading. So convenient? Some of the books there do not provides download, but you may have chances to read some portions of the book. If you really like it and want the entire book, just click and buy it. Or go back to search at pdfchm.

Enjoy your reading, wish you get what you want.

p.s. Do you know any site provides download of magazine? such as LinuxFormat?

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Did you heard about Internet black hole? There are some url couldn't access from some location, some country, but NOT because the site was down and NOT because the country have great firewall, it is because at some point, the route to a particular host does not exist. If you host your web under some web hosting company, you may want to verify whether your site accessible globally.

Who provide this service?
http://host-tracker.com/ provides this service for you. Just type in your site url and click the 'check' button. The monitoring network nodes will carry on its probes. Within a minute, you get what you want to know.

You can use it to check for other site too. In case you suspect, you falling into internet-black-holes, you can use it to verify whether is it the site is still accessible from some other location.

It provides the uptime widget for you to place it at your blogs too. You may paid them to get sms notification if your site is down too.

Did the web hosting company promise you about their uptime and accessibility? Don't you want to verify that for yourself?

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Should I put adsense on my blog?
There are a lots of post talk about how to add adsense to your blog. If you trying to search for opinion like 'should I actually put adsense on my blog', meaning you some how find the google ads irritates you, but still, you are thinking of putting it for some earning.

Putting adsense on your blog is more than just earning money! How to earn more through adsense is always a hot topic around blogger's community, it becomes a very exciting social topic among bloggers.

Putting adsense on your blog, you learn more than earning money. You need to know what is SEO, you need to figure out where to place your ads, and you will be asking to choose your keywords wisely while writing blog post. But don't let all of them shift your focus on your blog topics. You should write following your hearts, your readers are reading your blogs but not your ads.

Your blog is like your house, you don't want to trash your beautiful house don't you? If you feel the ads irritates you a lots, please don't place it there. Because you are the most regular visitors of your blog.

To help you make up your mind whether should you put adsense on your blog, lets look at the photo at below:



* For some blogs I visit, they put other ads besides google adsense, which makes me think, is it they have play around with adsense too much until it violates the rules of adsense consequently cause the account suspended by google.

Google adsense are too common to appear at any blogs!

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