I was scanning my server logs the other day and I noticed that I had heaps of requests for one page. Thousands a day, which is far more popular than anything else. I thought it was something dodgy for a while as I've had click-fraud people using a misconfigured Apache to Yaws proxy to do things before. Little rascals.
It turns out a little calculator I built to help explain and clarify a problem for work (CDMA ESN to MEID transition) has become quite popular and has a few users who use it daily. It isn't really that popular in a google page-rank sense, but enough links are there for it to have a steadily increasing readership.
The result of this discovery encouraged me to splatter a few google ads over the page, it now earns about 1 USD a day. I only need to replicate this success 100,000 times and I'll be in the 4-hour week bracket :-) To think I've sabotaged that by giving away the source! (FOSS people, I'm baiting you)
Edit: updated site link
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Weird popularity of niche sites
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ah, but who are these people? are they scammers who convinced someone to send them their MEID?
(hang on, who uses MEID?)
One of them was a phone provisioning guy checking the MEIDs against the pESNs in his database. All the new CDMA phones in the USA are now MEID but most of the BSS systems (wow, redundant acronym) have not been updated.
There are quite a few legit reasons, and some unlocking reasons, but having anyone's MEID is not really that useful. It isn't used for much and is (ahem) generally not reprogrammable.
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