Ok, there are many things wrong with the internet, but I only want to discuss one of them at the moment.

You know when you go to Google and type in anything, and seriously anything, from "1972 Ford Maverick parts" to "beast wars fanfiction" to "best porn pr0n mp3s warez britney spears naked", you'll always find yourself at the same site.

It's labeled 'best porn preteen teen nude xxx dogfart sluts britney spears naked furry best warez wares w4r3z mp3s ripped music roms' or something like.

What I have to ask is, do these sites even generate any money? If not, why are there so damned many of them?

I wouldn't know.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

They must generate money, otherwise there wouldnt be so many of them.

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And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon...

DSettahr's Homepage

The answer I want to give is the answer I most shouldn't.

I assume the generate money by selling ad and pop-up space to other companies and websites.

I'm sure there are some people, when searching Google, that just click on every result link untill they find what they're looking for. And some probably stumble into the various sites that have nothing to do with what they were originally looking for. And I'm sure some of those people see an ad or pop-up from the site to something that interests them, so they click on it. That click then genereates an income for the website selling the ad space to the other website/comapny. The income recieved from that click might only be a few cents, but get enough traffic, enough people paying you to get their ad on your page, and it's easy enough to generate yourself a profit. This profit then leads to keeping the site online, as well as providing the world with more valuble porn, warez and roms.

Not all of them do make money. But those that do, and have the intention to, can rake in quite a profit. Providing you can generate and maintain enough traffic. Which I would assume to be more than only a few thousand hits a week. Which is highly possible - a friend of mine use to run a website through a free online webspace provider, and on an average day was holding about 4000 hits per day.

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"When all else fails, eat pie."
-¬thoughts from beyond observance

The question is what isn't wrong with the internet.

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Don't be unwise judge me not by my size. You wont believe your eyes watch the xwing rise!

Porn gateway sites (which is what most of them are) are less about monetary generation themselves and more about traffic driving forces. If you missed the news flash, porn is the number one thing searched for on any and all search engines on the net. SOOO it makes perfect sense to have a redirecting page that is nothing but a bunch of text, perhaps selling some space for banner ads to actual porn, describing sexual acts that are frequently searched upon. They often have equally pornographic metatags. THESE ARE SEARCH ENGINE GOLD!! Then the page redirects to another page.

Consider why anybody who registers a URL that a big name is going to want puts porn on it? It gets it higher search engine results and magically it's worth about 100 times more than it was when he paid $7.50 for the year of registration.

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-=I'm the wang of this here site, and it's HUGE! So just imagine how big I am.=-
1337Yectiwan
OSC Returns!!
10 of 14 -- 27 Lives On

What i want to know is why recently google sometimes keeps failing on lookup so i have to keep refreshing it until i get the actual site and not some error page.

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[Blue Mink Bifocals !] [fsck -Rf /world/usr/] [<!-- kalimonster -->] [Capite Terram]
"You'll have to face it, the endings are the same however you slice it. Don't be deluded by any other endings, they're all fake, with malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by downright sentimentality. The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die." -Happy Endings [Margeret Atwood]
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

and some poor sap actually clicks on those

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Ah, C'mon, the internet is a wonderful place.....

FOR ME TO POOP ON!

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TI-MAH!

Exactly. Massassi is exepmt, of course , with a few other sites.

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I am Darth Slaw.
The Dark Lord of the Sith,
And part of the Nightfire mod team

No, no, no, you can't play favorites. Massassi is jacked up as well. I mean, just look at Sine. What a weirdo.

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Checksum: I thought about it, I guess I'm striving for my own personal ideals. I'll just project those ideals onto Jesus and say "I'm trying to be like Jesus" so that I won't have to listen to you banter endlessly about me worshipping a false god or some such.

The Last True Evil: Ironically, that's very Christian of you.

To think that the internet started as a way to share scientific information and now looks what it has become a source for continous abundant advertisment and filth. Sites like Massassi and others are what the net was really meant for.

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Designers have dreams and great idea's, but the coders are who have to get their hand dirty and program everything, they are slaves to the designers will.

-Arkon

"A day may come, when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of Fellowship,
but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you, stand,
men of the West!"

Of course, the scientific community (as well as many national governments) regretted ever privatizing the Internet, so they've got another one in the works. I hear the minimum speed on it will be 2Gbps, but it won't be for private use at all...

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

Al Gore invented the internet. What more could you expect?

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Do you have stairs in your house?

Free cookies? Oh wait, weve got those... Free pr0n? Oh, yeah, got that too. . .. hmm . . . Free pie? Heh! yeah! I want free pie!!!

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

I hope you're joking, and not thinking you're telling the truth... 'cuz you aren't.



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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

Are you suggesting that he didn't?

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Do you have stairs in your house?

While Al Gore did not create the internet, he did push for a method of government computers to be connected for fast data transfers. This method has evolved into the internet

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Lat rocks my box with sox

Really, nowadays, for the most part, the internet is chock-full-o of crap and useless garbage. Unless I'm lucky, I can almost never find something that I'm looking for, because all the other stuff comes up first. It's either that, or the stuff I'm looking for just isn't on the web.

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I am Darth Slaw.
The Dark Lord of the Sith,
And part of the Nightfire mod team

Actually, you seem to have things slightly wrong... The Internet began in 1969, and was known as the ARPANET. Then, Al Gore was only 21, far too young to be a politician. The ARPANET was developed as a means to connect insitutions such as NORAD, and major universities, for military and scientific purposes.

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

AL GORE INVENTED THE INTERNET! DEREK SMART INVENTED VIDEOGAMES! I INVENTED CAPITAL LETTERS!

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Shut up. I'm GOING to do this whether you like it or not.

The internet is a treasure trove.

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"I am downright amazed at what I can destroy with just a hammer."
-Atom and His Package

I dont know what Google you people use but I hardly ever have any trouble finding things.

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Bobbert006:The other day my dad said, "I think the world has passed me by."
I told him he isn't missing anything.

AGONetwork

Oh, neither do I, but I keep getting sites like I said - 'best porn warez mp3s mortgage penis enlargement britney spears naked furry gay lesbian,' and I'm asking why they exist.

[This message has been edited by Checksum (edited February 17, 2004).]

Obviously for those people with Furry Mortgage Spear fetishes..

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[Blue Mink Bifocals !] [fsck -Rf /world/usr/] [<!-- kalimonster -->] [Capite Terram]
"You'll have to face it, the endings are the same however you slice it. Don't be deluded by any other endings, they're all fake, with malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by downright sentimentality. The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die." -Happy Endings [Margeret Atwood]
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

I'd like to furry her mortgage

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"Our hero chucks a few rocks..."

BLASPHEMY! Sound the MBS alarm!

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TI-MAH!

I must be tired cause I read the topic as "What's wrong with incest?" Damn. I'm really tired and need to get over the flu..

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Prowling out of the tundra, swinging a jeweled meat hammer, cometh Outlaw Torn! And he gives a gutteral bellow:

"I'm seriously going to hump you until you scream like a banshee!"

The ol' Freudian Slip, aye? Do you have any sisters?

*sigh* And happydud read that as "Do you have any stairs."

walk; walk; walk; slip; fall; sleep; repeat;

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

"You think you're too cool for school. But I've got news for you Hansel... You aren't."

Sorry, it just reminded me of that.

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"When all else fails, eat pie."
-¬thoughts from beyond observance