The Recursive ISV

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OK.  Today has been pretty full on.  Linking the GUI into the file handling routines, getting shell drag and drop implemented (almost finished that now) and ironing out a few code wrinkles.  Pretty pleased so far.  I’m almost ready to post the first screen shots and will post details on the nature of the application tomorrow.  I’m just to dog tired tonight to do it right now.

I promised a while back on the BOS forums that I’d publish here, what I think to be, some interesting search terms, mostly from Google and the MS search engines, that I get in the logs for this blog.

So below, in percentages only are the May results for what folks were searching for when they came to this blog.  Note a piracy article I wrote here was largely responsible for these results.  But for an mISV it’s certainly of interest and gives, to a limited and albeit to a rather skewed degree, an inkling as to how much people are looking to steal software in 2008.

From a business perspective I suppose one could opine its not great news, but to my mind it’s pretty much what I expected and I’m not discouraged.

Some of the search terms, I find, rather hilarious.  I hope some of you get a kick out of them too.

software  6.8 %
windows  5.7 %
about  4.5 %
microsoft  4.5 %
above  3.4 %
cracks and hacks  3.4 %
david scottt kane computer programmer  2.2 %
folks  2.2 %
software hacks and cracks  2.2 %
cracks hacks  2.2 %
where did the name dropbears come from  2.2 %
Audio  2.2 %
shareware  2.2 %
unisys  2.2 %
software design divide by zero protection  1.1 %
lamers first hack  1.1 %
torrent credits card cracks  1.1 %
splashing into window  1.1 %
cracks hacks serial  1.1 %
dropbear manual explanation tutorial  1.1 %
cracks&hacks  1.1 %
torrent wordhacker 1 1.1 %
how to use keygen torrent file?  1.1 %
cracks and keygen websites  1.1 %
scott kane  1.1 %
scanned text editor torrent  1.1 %
scott kane microisv  1.1 %
www.davidscottkane.com  1.1 %
the best program cracks hacks  1.1 %
download free lamers furst private hack  1.1 %
concern about keygen and trojans  1.1 %
keygen trojan antivirus proof  1.1 %
keygen torrent sites  1.1 %
misv  1.1 %
starting misv  1.1 %
david scott kane  1.1 %
cd-roo script  1.1 %
hacks cracks keygen  1.1 %
how do large companies handle cd burning?  1.1 %
dewahost eddy  1.1 %
australian slang not decided  1.1 %
keygens  1.1 %
tech blogs keygens trojans  1.1 %
crack and hacks 1 1.1 %
something  1.1 %
keygens being labeled as viruses  1.1 %
legitimate keygen sites  1.1 %
clarion installer  1.1 %
hacks keygens  1.1 %
how to make social security card torrent  1.1 %
comfort  1.1 %
switching from windows to linux 1.1 %
credit card information keygen torrent  1.1 %
torrent files  1.1 %
component  1.1 %
misv shoestring  1.1 %
credit card torrent  1.1 %
hacks and cracks  1.1 %
tasking compiler crack  1.1 %
credit card keygen torrent 1.1 %

My suggestion to ISV’s is that if you have a blog consider doing an article along the lines of what I did here.  Seems to me if enough of us do this then it’ll get a lot harder for these morons to find the links they are looking for.

“Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger”
 
~Dr. Phil McGraw

Scott Kane

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