Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is being deemed a 'service', in the aftermath of the P2P crackdowns, disallusionment has really taken a foothold. No longer a world or sharing, unless you've signed up for about a million almost free memberships. For the same garbage you could surf absolutely free a decade ago.
Now if people think there is money to be had, there's a price tag, and it usually dangling in front of the images. Made some stupid buttons using Photoshop? List a couple of examples and hang a shingle as a graphic designer. Got a stupid cartoon that looks like a third-grader eeked it out holding the pen between his thumbs? You too can market your crap on a coffee mug and be signed up with pay-pal. Got nice boobs? Pay for college with them.
You get the point, this is getting more and more ridiculous by, well at least by the month. Everytime I make a search it seems things have gotten more restrictive. Now I added my name to an add-your-url-to-search-engine service months ago. It was supposed to add my own garbage little site to the likes of Yahoo! and Google ages ago. I just did a web search using my URL and nada came up.
To top it off, now when I look for search engine promotion 'services' I'm finding VERY little for free. WTF, I just want to put my site up so my friends can look at my dumb little site. I'm not making any money you 'tards, so I'm not paying for anything. Anything. I'm sure if I keep looking, I'll find what I'm looking for, but it took almost no time at all to find a free little javascript chat to add to my site. It should all be that easy.
Brain Lint:
Google found it first try in 0.33 seconds.
More Brain Lint:
Shortly after this post, Angelfire added yet another irritant called the lycos-sidebar to all free pages.
I am now in the process of moving my entire site to a new server.
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