httPulse Free Software Tool – by Scot Standke & Jim Morris
This week saw the wide-scale release of a software tool from Scot Standke & Jim Morris. Scot Standke has recently also been promoting his Keyword Bible and Keyword Avalanche sites and this free tool called httPulse seems to continue that promotion.
Users are encouraged to pass the free tool httPulse to their friends but my own use would suggest a word of caution, since for me at least this software gave some very strange results.
httPulse is supposed to enable you to check how many pages of a website you have indexed by Google, Yahoo and MSN. And to do this for as many websites as you enter into it, tracking the results and producing reports over a period of time.
Regrettably httPulse’s first attempt at this on one of my websites indicated I had 578 pages indexed in MSN. That would be nice except that there are only 190 pages on the site.
I tried it also on a second site and once again it produced wildly inaccurate results on MSN. The correct results are easily determined and were verified.
Unfortunately this is not the first time I’ve seen a buggy piece of software from the stable of Scot Standke. He was responsible for another bug ridden software called Carbtrack which was a diet calorie counter and planner.
Carbtrack crashed constantly but the main difference with Carbtrack was that it was not free software and what’s more a claim for a refund within the 90 day guarantee period for a defective piece of software fell on deaf ears.
Scot Standke went from being responsive over the problems with Carbtrack to totally non-responsive within a week and did not acknowledge more than 3 requests for a refund that was part of his offered 90 day guarantee at the time.
Scot Standke never did honor his refund policy for a piece of software that did not work and httPulse seems exactly the same, it doesn’t work either. The only difference is I’m glad I didn’t pay for it.
Tony Simpson
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