Finally, after 7 days of waiting (I submitted my appeal to Google AdSense 7 days ago), they finally acknowledged the appeal, and sent an email saying the information I’ve submitted in the appeal is under review.

Hello,

We’re currently in the process of reviewing your account with the
additional information that you’ve provided. Please understand, however,
that there is no guarantee that your account will be reinstated into
AdSense. As a reminder, Google does reserve the right to disable an
account at any time, as stated in the AdSense Terms and Conditions
(http://www.google.com/adsense/terms ).

Thank you for your patience.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

I love how they have to note that they reserve the right to disable any account at any time to cover their asses. Even if it isn’t justified, they have the final say and I still see that 0% chance that they’ll restore my account. If they do, I have a funny feeling they’d steal the money from the account and leave me with nothing.

Don’t get me wrong. I’d love it if all of a sudden the AdSense account was restored, every cent earned was rightfully returned to me, and I was allowed to continue to opperate my site without worrying what kind of ads are going to be shown to my users. It’s just ads! I should be more worried about possible layout changes, logo changes, new store items, new site features and working on new posts. Ah well, I hate waiting for things.

Tags: Google, Google AdSense

Call it a nasty habit of mine to install a program and forget that I installed it. I forget to uninstall it when its usefulness has ended, and trust me — it’s bit me in the ass a bunch of times. Like today for example!

I’ve had trouble all day and night Wednesday being unable to load websites with speed, even having load times for my own bloody site take over 5 minutes! Anything wrong with this picture? My website viewing issues started after I installed Google’s Chrome. And do you know what? You guessed it! It ended when I uninstalled that garbage browser!

I was tinkering with Google’s Chrome browser, and let me remind you that I’m running a Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz processor. While watching a sprite flash animation on Newgrounds.com, I actually hit 31% CPU usage. Now let me break this down for you, for those of you who don’t understand what kind of processor I’m using really means.

A Core 2 Quad, or Quadcore processor has 4 cores. Dur, I know. But the typical, standard and basic PC’s, especially those that run Windows XP pre-Media Center likely are running a single core processor. To have 31% CPU usage means that the total CPU usage would go well beyond 100% CPU usage in a single core processor computer, and would give you all sorts of fits.

So, I’ve uninstalled Google’s Chrome browser/failure, and I’ve suddenly and happily regained my website loading speed in my other browsers — including Internet Explorer. Amazing? Yes. If Google is so desperate to have people just settle for using their browser over the others to the point they’ll allow their browser to screw with the other installed browsers on your computer, then damn.

Google is absolutely pathetic.

I thought the evil empire that is Microsoft was bad, but wow. Even Microsoft permits compatibility for Firefox within the Windows OS and while Windows users have Internet Explorer in use. Ah well, there is no way in hell the Chrome browser will stand against Firefox or Internet Explorer.

Tags: Google, Google Chrome, Science & Technology, Tech, Technology

Seeing that the beta was released of Google Chrome and just staring at pictures of the layout of the browser, I didn’t think very highly of the browser to begin with. Still, I like testing new programs and this time is no different.

The overall usage of the browser is simple and quick to understand like a browser should. I’ve seen several reviews of it talking about its speed and how it is able to load sites quickly. Not quite. It took Firefox 3 less than a second to load SHiNTER.NET compared to Google’s Chrome which took over 2 seconds to load.

I went and paid a visit to a site I like to frequent — Newgrounds.com — and I almost thought the site wasn’t going to load at first in Chrome, because for over a second I had a blank black page. Then the content started appearing, and it eventually loaded taking over 4 seconds to load. Firefox 3 is able to load Newgrounds.com from top to bottom in under 2 seconds despite it being graphics and content heavy.

I do like the transparency support for Vista Aero for Chrome, and makes it nice and sleek. That is also one of the few redeeming qualities I get from using Internet Explorer. In the end, after tinkering around with Chrome, I was left more annoyed than anything and it didn’t take long to close out and switch back to Firefox 3.

The Good

The transparency to match Vista Aero.
The button style to open new tabs.
Extra website viewing space.

The Bad

Slower loading time compared to Firefox 3.
You have to download a downloader + installer, instead of only an installer.
Doesn’t support wheel mouse usage for auto-scroll.
20%+ CPU usage on a Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz processor when playing YouTube videos.

The Rating

For a browser that openly admits it is built around the better parts of all the popular browsers, it sure doesn’t give off that feel. I doubt I’ll be using it again and will continue to use Firefox 3 until a browser proves to me that it is functional enough to meet my usage standards. I’d give an overall rating of 6/10 for Chrome. Even the Firefox 3 “Beta” had more useful features than this.

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Tags: Chrome, Google, Google Chorome, Ranking, Review, Technology, Websites

Yesterday I submitted an appeal form, and informed Google AdSense that I have no control over who clicks my ads and how many times someone clicks. I also enlightened them to the fact that ads are meant to be clicked. I also noted that SHiNTER.NET has a growing fanbase of users located in Gainesville, FL for multiple reasons, from the college football coverage to the recent coverage of Fay.

I’ve not done anything to warrant them getting anal with me, and at this point in time I really feel they’re just pissy because I was likely going to have an amount worthy of payment accumulated in such a short amount of time, and that they see more of the same in the future from SHiNTER.NET, and to save a few bucks, they’re withholding revenue generated by us and effectively stealing income from us.

I’ve already decided to chronicle the issues with Google AdSense in hopes of warning others who think they’re a worthwhile option for ads, and to inform them they’re likely going to get scammed into listing their ads, and then before payment they’ll suddenly come up with something that you’ve done wrong and take away your earnings. Bah, what a joke.

Tags: Google, Google AdSense, Opinions, Site News, Website News

Google, in its infinite wisdom has decided that the site is a significant risk to their AdWords users, and have kicked me from the program. I’m sorry the sites popularity boomed, especially after it got dugg so much. Hell, I’m sorry it talks about one of the more popular subjects out there; College Football, and that the ads that mostly filled this site were related to such content. I actually clicked an ad because I wanted to go look at the stores selection on college football merchandise. Can’t help it, I’m a Buckeye fan.

The way I see it, I got shafted for being too damn popular, and Google didn’t like that. Didn’t like the fact that I managed to build the site around those ads to make the ads actually worthwhile to have for the people who visit it. Bloody ridiculous.

In other news for the site, I’ve removed the forum and the search. I never paid any attention to the forum, so it wasn’t worth keeping. As for the search, as it was built around a Google AdSense Search, and I got paid for it when people would use it, I’ve taken that down as well. No sense in still using a Google Search and not get anything out of it. Right? Right.

Tags: Google, Google AdSense, Google Search, Site News, Website News

I just added a custom flash donation button to the sidebar. Look to the right. –>

The countdown is for the 1st of every month. This months target is $25 USD. Ad revenue from AdSense doesn’t count due to it requiring $100 in total earned before they’ll send out a payment, and then for every $100 earned after they’ll send out a payment. As for the store, it requires a minimum of $25 earned before payment is issued. The best option for SHiNTER.NET is currently donations, which it is accepting. Once the donation target is met, I’ll remove the button until the next month cycles through.

I’m also selling ad space on the site, and if you’re interested in making a deal, use the contact form to make an offer.

Thanks for the support!

Tags: AdSense, Donate, Google, Site News

Today I officially launched the SHiNTER.NET | Community and the SHiNTER.NET | Search. Let me explain a little about both new features…

SHiNTER.NET | Community

The SHiNTER.NET Community is an all-topic message board. Like SHiNTER.NET itself, the Community is based on opinions of the news, subjects, etc. It isn’t 100% strictly news, and provides the members of the community a place to express themselves to others, and share their personal insight. It is more than another message board; it truly is Freedom on the Internet!

SHiNTER.NET | Search

The SHiNTER.NET Search is a customized search engine powered by Google. The difference between SHiNTER.NET Search and Google? The SHiNTER.NET Search has a matching color scheme to the site and community, as well as a nice home page to work from located here. I hope you choose to use the SHiNTER.NET Search feature as your new search engine of choice!

We’ve also been accepted into Google AdSense. I apologize for the advertisements, but if we get reasonable support, I don’t see why I can’t pull the ads in the future. Until then, I don’t think they’ll bother anyone. They’re not intrusive. Right? Right.

I look forward to welcoming you into the new community! See you there!

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Tags: AdSense, Board, Community, Forum, Google, Message Board, Search, Search Engine, Site News