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I was just reading galts page and it had a bit about mango sauce, so I thought I would have a look at mangosauce as I hadn't read it for a couple of months, and it seems to have gone, the server is up and responding, mysql works, so what has happened?
Galt has been doing a bit about outing mangosauce in his weeklys, then suddenly mangosauce seems to have dissappeared, what the fok does he have to hide?
Didn't David (was that his name, too drunk to remember) have some kind of problem with Google classifying his site as porn and then losing all his ad revenue ( only about $700 a month but enough to make it worth his while)?
Just looked at it a couple of weeks ago.Was always good for a laugh.Gone now...Maybe Dave shagged one of Galts Chihuahuas...
^^Naaa, that was about a year ago, last time I checked a couple of months ago he was up there with stickman on entries in google.
June 6 2007
"Readers who've been admiring the Laotian rock rat for the past three weeks are probably wondering what's happened to me. Amongst other things, I've been pondering the future of this site.
Mango Sauce has welcomed literally millions of visitors over the years but, since Google AdSense pulled the plug, my once-healthy advertising income has dwindled to almost nothing. New advertisers have proved hard to find and, despite its enduring popularity, the site is commercially dead in the water.
Writing Mango Sauce has always been great fun but unless I pull my finger out and start earning some money, I'm going to end up sleeping in a dirt soi surrounded by scabby dogs and bottles of my own urine.
Your Ad Here"
That's from Google cache, like you say - the site seems to have disappeared. That's a big fkn shame - he might have have been another ol' fat fxr but he was funny and had a way with words.
But why take the whole site down? it will still get hits and revenus from google ads, seems starnge.
The site was doing well for visitors compared to the rest of the Thailand related sites.
Never read it mesel' though.
DD, dunno what happened to ms but your search-engine optimisation is powerful and mighty! A google search on "what happened to mangosauce" brings your OP here up on the front page (tho' TV is just above you)!
Mango Sauce: Crazy about Bangkok
I just looked at it here
^Won't load for me.
I seem to remember that there were no google ads at all on the site the last time I looked.just a "click here to advertise"
Isn't yahoo coming out with an ad revenue thingie??
Nope I don't get it from your link, just comes up
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Seems that the all new unimproved stickman mark 2 is gonna have a lot of work on his plate :) also mangosauce still has a few hundred entries in google so they aint totally ignored him, just dumped what they thought was crap.
I tried that link too - didn't work. This is the link that worked for me, Mango Sauce: Crazy about Bangkok
An nslookup on Mango Sauce: Crazy about Bangkok fails, maybe he didn't pay his godaddy bill.
edit: all those addresses above were originally IP addresses - sometimes vBulletin is too anal :(
its just google cache
This is G o o g l e's cache of http://www.mangosauce.com/ as retrieved on 7 Jun 2007 21:16:39 GMT.
Ctrl F5 it dave, then it wont resolve, thats a hard refresh, or try with a browser you haven't used to visit mangosauce, it aint there nomore.
Google may not ban him from Search results but if they "feel" the site violates the adsense agreement they will withhold paymet and discontinue serving ads. I think this my be the google problems he was referring to. Someone should tell him Yahoo has an ad program similar to google these days.
You can't show both on the same page (another "violation") but the ad format, shapes, sizes and delivery methods are very similar.
I should have made this thread into a poll :) Whats mangosauces sordid little secret? Sexpat school teaching ex tesco shelf packer? :)
Mangosauces big problem was that it was a blog that didn't control the reponses to the bloggers posts. The blog was funny but the regular responders were wankers who just wanted to fight each other.
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Originally Posted by DrB0b
I thought that was the funniest bit, although they could have cut down on the repetitive posts a bit, so I want to know what nasty little secret JohnGalt was getting to close to :) Mango was supposedly on his own server so he has to pay his hosting anyway, I assume he hosts other sites so why bother taking down the mangosauce one?Quote:
Originally Posted by DrB0b
Tut tut, 1,179 posts and the quote function still screws up :DQuote:
Originally Posted by daveboy
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Well maybe this time if you offer to buy the galt a sarnie and a cuppa he'll let you in on the secret :)
Naaa, I don't think he knows, notstickmans article came out on the 7th and had no mention of sordid nasty dirty little secret, mangosauce was last indexed by google on the 7th, so he probably took the site down on the 8th or 9th and today is the 10th, hmmmm, it's got to be one hell of a great secret, maybe he works at one of the Catholic schools and someone has piccies of him shagging one of the nuns or something :) love a bit of idle speculation :)
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Google has stopped my adsense money and yahoo ask too many questions
HHhhehehehheheehhehehe, it took me a couple of seconds of thought :)
Sorry about that! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dirtydog
DD,Why don't you get hime to post here in a seperate blog thingie and then go halves in the revenue?
He has his own server so I assume that like us he does hosting aswell, so there is no reason for him to take down his site, probably uses less than 2 percent of his server resources with the mangosauce domain.
Stickman mark 2 has this to say.
Aint back online and cant find any evidence from google to say it had been back online, did he do a hard refresh or did it just load from his cache?Quote:
Another popular Bangkok website has called it quits. David, the main writer and owner behind Mango Sauce, has decided to move on to bigger and better things. This continues a trend with Bangkok based websites either changing hands or simply stopping for good. An announcement on the site stated that David had been unable to make adequate income from the site and that it was no longer a viable venture. He had indicated that the site would remain online permanently but within 24 hours of posting the message the site had become inaccessible. Checking earlier today it was back online again. Weird.
The site works for me..
There's a funny bit about a rare Laotian rat
I was wandering though that site a few years ago and remember some funny bits about backpackers and Kao San rd.Quote:
Identified for the very first time when served up to a hungry American naturalist on a skewer in 2005, a living specimen of the Laotian rock rat has now been photographed. Despite appearances, the creature - known locally as a kha-nyou - isn't a rat at all. Robert Timmins described his tasty new discovery as a "spineless porcupine."
At that stage, however, he'd never seen a live specimen so branding the enigmatic creature a coward might have been premature. For all we know, when ambushed by Laotian rice farmers brandishing sliced bell peppers and pineapple chunks, the bushy-tailed beast might have shown conspicuous bravery.