Can I display my banner in a specific category?
We support category based banner advertising and have affordable advertising packages for all types of budget.
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A Useful Service' is currently receiving:
- an average of 8,000,000 Hits Per Month.
- an average of 28 Search Requests Per Minute.
- an average of 1,200,000 Unique Visitors Per Month.
'
A Useful Service' can be found at the following locations:
The Term "Our Websites" includes but is not restricted to the following list of URLs:
So
as you can see, we can provide a great mechanism to drive traffic to your site.
Benefits of 'Banner Advertising' include:
- Prominent Banner Display at the top of your selected category page.
- Choose to appear in as many relevant categories as you require.
- Free duplicate banners in similarly named categories
i.e.
- If your category choice is “Shopping” your banner appears in:
- England > Oxfordshire > Business and Economy > Shopping
- And for free in:
- England > Buckinghamshire > Business and Economy > Shopping etc. etc.
- Flexible and affordable packages to suit all budgets.
- Banners are available on a first come, first served basis. Once you have chosen the category for your banner, your banner will always appear at the top of that category's page for your chosen time period.
- Statistics information showing how well your Banner is working for you.
- Banner Design if required.
- Link to a self-designed web page if you don't currently have your own website.
(We have very flexible software, which when combined with the skills of our in-house development team and graphic designers enable us to quickly tailor individual solutions to meet our advertisers' requirements.)
For more information and to discuss your individual needs, contact us using the
Our Contact Form....
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Give me 10 good reasons to register?
- Adding Site Entries
- You can create your own site entries in A Useful Service directory and these will also show as results in A Useful Service search engine.
- You can modify the title, description and keywords of your site entries at anytime
- You can change the categories that your site entry appears in at anytime
- You can include your site in up to 10 unique categories.
- Your Favourites - Your Favourites...
- Items stored in Your Favourites allow you to see additional information such as:
- How many times you have visited the site.
- How long since you visited the site.
- All the items in Your Favourites can be demoted at once, with a single mouse click.
- Individual items in Your Favourites can be demoted back to Your History.
- Your Dynamic Page - Your Dynamic Page...
- Your History - Your History...
A Useful Service can remember the links you follow either when browsing the web directory or from your search results, these links are stored as Your History.
- Items stored in Your History allow you to see additional information such as:
- How many times you have visited the site.
- How long since you visited the site.
- All the items in Your History can be deleted at once, with a single mouse click.
- Individual items in Your History can be promoted to Your Favourites.
If you check the checkbox in:
Settings > Your Settings > Automatically Promote Your History to Your Favourites
then instead of being placed in your history, links you follow are automatically promoted into Your Favourites, bypassing Your History.
- Individual items in Your History can also be deleted.
- Your Favourite Categories - Some categories you may find interesting...
An automatically generated list of your Favourite Web Directory Categories.
- Your Favourite Searches - Your Favourite Searches...
Stores the searches you make against a count of how many times you have made them.
- You can log in to A Useful Service from anywhere in the world and get to your links.
- Unlike some other search engines we don't provide links to adult content so we try our upmost to remain child friendly
We use various methods to prevent our spiders automatically adding adult sites to our Web Directory. However in certain circumstances material of an adult nature may be returned from the Search Results.
- You will be joining an elite group of individuals who don't always like to use Google as their Internet search engine. Individuals who like to explore what the web has to offer and like to discover for themselves new sites and places to visit that are off the beaten path.
- It's FREE, we don't charge you a penny. All we ask is that you occasionally click on one of our banners, but only if the mood takes you.
It's up to you, to register just enter your Email Address on the User Registration... Page.
We will then send you a link so that you can create a Password.
And that's all there is to it.
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How big is 'A Useful Service'?
As of 04 February 2012 'A Useful Service' currently contains:
- 6,012 people (including you) are currently using our site. [MUN]
- 285,750 people have registered and have active accounts. [TSC]
- 3,877 Passive Contributor Nodes. [TUC]
- 68,873 Category Nodes. [TCC]
- 25,000,000+ Site Listings. [MUN]
'
A Useful Service' is currently receiving:
- an average of 8,000,000 Hits Per Month.
- an average of 28 Search Requests Per Minute.
- an average of 1,200,000 Unique Visitors Per Month.
'
A Useful Service' can be found at the following locations:
The Term "Our Websites" includes but is not restricted to the following list of URLs:
So
as you can see, we can provide a great mechanism to drive traffic to your site.
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How can I improve the ranking of my site on 'A Useful Service' for FREE?
Answer: Yes
There are several easy ways of increasing your site listing's ranking on our service, and they won't cost you a penny.
- Create a (reciprocal) link from your site to ours Some Examples of reciprocal linking...
- Make sure you select appropriate Categories for your site listing.
You can change the Categories your site listing appears in at any time, just go to the Your Site Entries... and click the Modify the Site Entry Details... link, then follow the instructions provided.
- Make sure your site listing has a good Description and Keywords.
You can change the Description and Keywords of your site listing at any time, just go to the Your Site Entries... and click the Modify the Site Entry Details... link, then follow the instructions provided.
- Make sure you own all of the entries for your URL (contact us if this is an issue).
If you need any further help or assistance then please contact our support department using our
Our Contact Form...
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How can I make 'A Useful Service' my Home Page?
If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer then just
Click Here!
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How much does it cost to register?
Registration is FREE.
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I have forgotten my Password?
If you have forgotten your Password then a reminder can sent to your email address by using the Password Emailer...
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Privacy Statement?
Privacy Statement
Disclaimer
Our Websites... contain links to many other Websites.
Our Websites... declaim responsibility for the privacy practices or the content of other linked Websites provided through or on
Our Websites.... The privacy practices and content of any third party materials should be determined individually.
Government authorities and legal rights
If requested or required by government authorities, such as law enforcement authorities, courts, or regulators, or otherwise to comply with the law, we may disclose any information we have about our users or modify other practices described in this policy, such as how long and in what form we keep information. We also may disclose information collected about you in order to exercise or protect legal rights or defend against legal claims.
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Support Information?
We may ask you to reference information on this page when resolving queries regarding our services
Server Information
Name: A Useful Service
URL: http://www.ausefulservice.com/
Date:
04 February 2012
Time:
20:17:33
Client Information
Display Name:
ID: 0
Agent: CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
Host: 38.107.179.224
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Terms & Conditions?
Terms of Use
You should review these terms of use ("Terms of Use") carefully prior to using
Our Websites.... By using
Our Websites..., you agree to be bound by the provisions contained in these Terms of Use. We may amend these Terms of Use from time to time without notice to you, and you agree to be bound by any such amendments. Therefore, you should review these Terms of Use each time you use
Our Websites.... If these Terms of Use or any amendments are unacceptable, you must discontinue your use of
Our Websites... immediately. As used in these Terms of Use, "we" and "our" refer to
... and its derivatives. References to "
Our Websites..." includes, where applicable, any content, products, and services contained on
Our Websites....
General
We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue
Our Websites... at any time for any or no reason with or without notice to you.
You agree to use
Our Websites... only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of
Our Websites.... Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within
Our Websites....
Ownership
All materials contained on
Our Websites...s including but not limited to text, images, and graphics are protected under applicable laws relating to intellectual property rights, such as copyright, patent, and trademark laws. No part of
Our Websites... may be reproduced, copied, modified, republished, or transmitted in any manner by any means without our written permission. You shall not modify
Our Websites... or sell, lease, loan, distribute or create any derivative works from it.
Warranties and Liability Disclaimer
To the maximum extent permitted by law,
Our Websites... disclaims all warranties, express or implied, relating to the content or services available on or accessible through the
Our Websites... site, including any implied term of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose and any term relating to the provision of services to a standard of reasonable care and skill or to non-infringement of any intellectual property right.
Under no circumstances will
Our Websites... be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such losses where foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise):
- Loss of data.
- Loss of revenue or anticipated profits.
- Loss of business.
- Loss of opportunity.
- Loss of goodwill or injury to reputation.
- Losses suffered by third parties.
- Any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of Our Websites... regardless of the form of action.
Contributions
In the act of submitting any contribution to
Our Websites...;
- you agree to grant Our Websites... a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your contribution worldwide and/or to incorporate your contribution in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in Our Websites... Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant to Our Websites... the rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution.
- you warrant that your contribution;
- is your own original work.
- you have the right to make it available to Our Websites... for all the purposes specified above
- is not defamatory.
- does not infringe any law.
- indemnify Our Websites... against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by Our Websites... as a result of your breach of the above warranty.
- you waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on Our Websites... and the purposes specified above.
What is 'A Useful Service'?
'A Useful Service' is a Neural Net based
Internet Search Engine focusing on
British sites.
'A Useful Service' uses The-Arena (Daemonlinks Core) Technology to combine both a high speed
Structured Directory Search and a thorough
Web Crawl. We use custom developed neural network based Spider bots, to read web pages and transfer meta-information into our
Categorised Web Directory. The directory is made up of
68,873 Categories, clustered in a structured hierarchy, and currently contains
285,750 detailed sites listings.
Our
Application Service Provision (ASP) comprises of a large group of SOAP compliant Web Services which are used to create dynamic embedded content on our clients' sites.
We use a custom developed neural network (1/(1+e-sx)) based algorithms to structure and rank web site meta data, collected by twenty independent spider bots.
Some History:
The-Arena (originally the Arena BBS dial up service) started life in 1980 as a directory of bulletin board systems based in Britain. Our first service ran on an ICL Perq 1 (which we still have safely stored away) and was accessed only through dial up, using an acoustic coupler running at 300 baud (300 bits per second). In 1988 we borrowed some space on a Prime computer based in Oxfordshire and managed to get a JIP on the Janet network where we stayed until 1992 when we moved to CompuServe. In September 2000 because our directory had evolved in to a directory of URLs we decided it was time to buy a domain name and become ‘The-Arena’ …
One of the core philosophies of Our Founder (Mr Andrew H. Cooper) was (and remains) that ‘The-Arena should enhance his life and the lives of others by filtering out the crap’… For the past three decades our Search Engine has remained the 'crap filter of choice' for those suffering from information overload. We have evolved driven by the changing requirements of our discerning users.
Notes: Sites whether listed in the Directory or suggested by the Search Engine are selected because they are predominantly
British in nature. Both the Directory listings and Search results are ordered by popularity. By default each of the
68,873 categories display the
Top 50 most popular sites within it, and its
children.
Popularity is automatically calculated by frequency of use and a weighted node based neural algorithm. You can add Sites to the Search Engine and Directory using the
Site Entry Creator... To contact us use
Our Contact Form....
'
A Useful Service' is currently receiving:
- an average of 8,000,000 Hits Per Month.
- an average of 28 Search Requests Per Minute.
- an average of 1,200,000 Unique Visitors Per Month.
'
A Useful Service' can be found at the following locations:
The Term "Our Websites" includes but is not restricted to the following list of URLs:
So
as you can see, we can provide a great mechanism to drive traffic to your site.
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What is My Dynamic Page?
Your Dynamic Page is a customisable public view of
Your Favourites...
The order of the site listings on your page will constantly change as it actively tracks the individual sites popularity and ranking.
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What is the meaning of life?
Who am I?
What is life all about?
What happens when I die?
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What's new at 'A Useful Service'?
January 2009
- Modified the personal homepage to incorporates the logged on users favourites, history, categories and searches.
February 2009
- Removed memories.
March 2009
- Created a new media indexing and playing process Arena Television
- Created a new RSS Feed reader and render process Arena Feed Index
April 2009
- Changed the conceptual link between a Dynamic Page and the Web Directory
- Created the Arena Dynamic Pages Category.
- Created a full Site Link reference for the users Dynamic Page making it available to the Search Engine.
- Created full transparent automation of this full process
May 2009
- Created a full Site Link reference for Feed Entries making them available to the Web Directory and Search Engine.
- Created a full Site Link reference for Media Entries making them available to the Web Directory and Search Engine.
- Added IE 8 Add-ons
- Search Service Provider (With Suggestions)
- Accelerator - To Add Site Entries
- Webslices
June 2009
- Added the Cloud Filter - This feature is available when browsing Categories from the Web Directory.
- Added a Google RSS Subscribe and Add This Subscribe and Share functionality.
- Created The Web Explorer's Page
- Hid The Daily Informer
July 2009
Hilary was very ill nothing was done.
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