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There was some change from Google this week again. I believe that the algorithm is changing and that causes the movement. Google is trying to perfect their mathemathics equation for PageRank so that there is little to no black hat in cheating PageRank.

Most of the site who had movement end up having PageRank of 0 (yes, a round egg), no one gain as far as I know from this movement. Here is some of the PageRank 0 websites. This post was mainly targeting at PayPerPost Blogger, but I am not really sure. Anyhow, PPP is trying to start their own IZEA RealRank to rank their own blogger. This may not be official, but you can check your RealRank here. I got a 50/100 (that is PR 5, if that is true).

RealRank algorithm is very simple

70% weighted towards visitors per day
20% weighted towards amount of ACTIVE inbound links per day
10% weighted towards pageviews per day

I will be updating my post about Blogs with Top Commentators Wordpress Plugins as there is a lot of changes in the list. This list will be updated, I am waiting for this movement to calm down. All of the PR2 blogs did not survive this movement, I have no idea why.  

An off topic post about Bonnie Brown, who is a millionaire by massaging Google. A rest from all those serious post.

Quite a touching story telling people that there is always hope to becoming rich. She made USD450 weekly being an in-house masseuse for Google Inc. and given some Google Stocks, thinking that will not worth any money. Who knows, she is richer than most average people.

Reading on further, you reads that she now have masseuse to come by her house once a week. I bet she must be telling her story to her masseuse to motivate him/her.

Read on further from News.Com

As of last month, Google Adsense allows withdrawal through Western Union. I have successfully withdraw do that yesterday through RHB Bank, Giant Bukit Tinggi, Klang.  The whole idea of getting money via Western Union is very good and hassle free.

Here is a list of benefits:-

1. Faster – This is the main and the absolute advantage to make your change the payment option to Western Union. Usually I get the check on the 10 to 11th of each month. Clearance of the check is like until then end of the month. While I did it yesterday on the 1st of Nov, I manage the cash out on that day itself.
2. Cheaper – I clear the check using HSBC around RM11.30 each month. I earn an extra RM11.30 as I do no have to pay for the overseas check clearance.

Disadvantage

1. You have to line up for it.

It is obvious that the advantages using Western Union supersede the disadvantage. All I did was to print a copy of the Western Union Payment information from Google Adsense, fill up a form at RHB Bank, show my IC and spend some time there.

The only complain I have on this whole thing is that the Bukit Tinggi RHB Branch is bad, I mean real bad. Here is my complaints:-

• Only one person knows how to use the Western Union terminal, I was so unlucky that she was out for lunch. I also overheard that 2 other employees asking each other why you did not learn and blaming each others. They are actually offered the course but they did not take the effort to learn.
• Asked to wait for 10 minutes for the lady to come back from lunch, and she was there 25 minutes later.
• Then I was passed to another lady to process my payment when Western Union have already approved it. She was doing her own sweet stuff while I waited right in front of her face and she show no expression and not explaining why the hell I am waiting there for.
• Okay, after all this time waiting, I manage to see the brochure for “Customer Survey”. Wow, I was so happy, I took one and read what they were asking for. There were some basic question and one particular question got my vision was the name of the employee who served me, I had 3 employees servicing me like a football and none of them had name anywhere. Also, there is no box to drop the Customer Survey or any address where I can send them to. What kind of company tries prove that they are improve their customer service but actually does not have the intention to do so? I know that RHB is definitely one of them.

Enough of banging the bank in Malaysia. Overall, it is a fruitful experience as I manage to cash out some money. $$$

As of today, Adsense have confirmed the payment via Western Union. This is my first try at this service and I hope that it will not be a problem to receive the fund. Although it is not a lot, but it is fun to have payment this way everymonth.

Previously I used HSBC to clear my checks and I will have a call each time I bank in the check (or cheque).

To check if your payment is ready. Go to

1. My Account > Payment History
2. Click on “detail” after Payment Isuued on October 2007 row.

After that, you will see this screen.

I suggest that you print a copy as you will need quite a few information in order to get your payment.

1. Money Transfer Control Number (MTCN)
2. Payment Amount
3. Government Issued ID (Passport, Driving License, National ID etc)
4. Senders’ Information:-

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA

Here is the link to find location to withdraw money from Western Union in your area.

It is interesting to see how Google grows. Seems like day by day and step by step, Google is conquering the knowledge of mankind. I would prefer competition, I always like competition because it means better service and competative pricing (not in the search engine sense).

From Hitwise,  the table below shows the market share of the main search engine. But if you see an article sourcing from ComScore, Google only gets 55.2% of the pie on July 07. That is a huge difference of 9.15%, which is due to different calculation method as ComScore puts eBay, Wikipedia, Amazon, Craigslist and other website.

Also, you would see that Microsoft gets 12.3%, which is kind of weird, because Hitwise only have 1.61% for other search engine provider for July 2007 and Microsoft only score 8.79%. Considering, that ComScore method shares the pie with more people at the same time.