There's a new cyberkid on the Internet search engine block: AdultAdultFairlinks.com. Their aim is to tackle "many of the shortcomings" of existing Net search engines, including what they call a "fair method" for listing Website participants. "Our goal with AdultAdultFairlinks is to level the playing field for Website searches," says AdultAdultFairlinks CEO Dan Bradshaw. "Every one of our site partners has equal opportunity to appear on the top screen for search users." The engine offers speed, easy usage, and "a search engine free of advertising," not to mention what they call "unbiased ratings and verification" of the content on sites listed by the engine. Bradshaw says they avoid trickery, banner ads, and outside influences to get sites listed higher in the rankings - they'll rotate all sites randomly, rate them, and verify their content. They will also dedicate two-thirds of their revenues to advertising of the site, Bradshaw says. And here's one kicker: site listings are free until a site makes 100,000 unique hits a day, after which Webmasters will be charged $150 per month, with two-thirds of those fees going toward outside-the-Net advertising.
SAN JOSE, CA - BayTSP.com has finished round one of financing a month after its initial public offering. The Net security and content tracking provider, which works with the adult Net industry especially, says this will let them finish testing a suite of branding and tracking applications, bring in more development staff, upgrade and expand its data center, and launch aggressive marketing and sales campaigns - including strategic advertising and public relations. "The energy behind this first round of funding confirms the soundness of the core technology and the strategic direction taken by the company," says BayTSP founder and CEO Mark Ishikawa. "We look forward to the continued development of innovative solutions for our customers and to provide them with the tools necessary to protect their intellectual property and online investments." Bollibokka Investments president Phil Wessells says BayTSP provides a "simple but elegant solution to an escalating problem" of Web security and intellectual theft. BayTSP "provides a significant advantage of protecting files which may have been distributed months or even years ago," he says. "Additionally, the technology is media type independent, so licensees of BayTSP.com will be able to protect their licensed and copyrighted programs, text, images, video and audio files, including MP3 files, trademarks, company logos, and even entire web pages."
FAIRFAX, VA - Governor James Gilmore has signed a bill creating a new code governing online software and other purchases - making Virginia the first state to take up the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act as law. The proposal is opposed by writers, librarians, and consumer groups, as well as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Federal Trade Commission. The act is backed by such Internet heavyweights as Microsoft and America Online. The critics, though, say the law benefits software and information companies at consumer expense. The American Library Association says it would rewrite copyright law to favor electronic publishing interests. And the Consumers Union says it would leave room for eliminating such requirements as software loaded into a computer be compatible with it - not to mention software makers including back doors allowing them to disable a user's software.
--- Compiled by Humphrey Pennyworth
