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Kontera removed "$5 earnings minimum" clause, this has been announced in their blog : After releasing our updated TOS we’ve received some publisher feedback pertaining to an existing clause. The clause, stating a $5 earnings minimum in order for revenues to be rolled over to the next month, though not a new addition, raised some concerns among a small yet important segment of our publisher community. Since publisher feedback is highly important to us and as a result, we’ve decided to remove this clause from our TOS effective April 1st 2009. Is this a good news to 'a small yet important segment of our publisher community?' but I have removed Kontera code in most of my webpages after I have realized this , and feel very unhappy with MY 'stupidness'. I am sandbox publisher, I joined Kontera six months ago, none of my monthly revenue has reached minimum earning requirement (and I have to say, Kontera's CPC rate is very low!), so I have worked for Kontera for n...

I check "Who's Online" in my forum, and notice one IP from Google, is that Google's spider? In my SMF forum, login as admin, click "Who's Online", it show one guest's IP is 66.249.71.113, click this IP address, it takes me to "Track IP" interface, it shows five regions with ARIN (North America, a portion of the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa) in bold: AfriNIC (Africa) APNIC (Asia Pacific region) ARIN (North America, a portion of the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa) LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean region) RIPE (Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia) Then click the entry in bold, it takes me to "Search ARIN WHOIS for: 66.249.71.113" result: OrgName: Google Inc. OrgID: GOGL Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway City: Mountain View StateProv: CA PostalCode: 94043 Country: US NetRange: 66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255 CIDR: 66.249.64.0/19 NetName: GOOGLE NetHandle: NET-66-249-64-0-1 Paren...