Ok, so I posted a link to a Bill Hicks video hosted on my server, yey me 'n stuff.

Then along comes shitty yahoo and altavista video search with their robots and crawl my site. They find the link and decide to index it in their search, then I get a boom of traffic, not to my site, but solely to that video and not in any context what-so-ever. People most likely don't realise what they're doing when they happily click a link to watch a video on some SHIT search engine. They're just leeching server bandwidth without a care in the world.

Yahoo / MSN / Altavista however know exactly what they're doing. They're too damned cheap to actually do it correctly, for example the way that Google video indexes it's videos, where it downloads the video once to their servers, re-encodes it and Google then hosts the video themselves. So.. the moral of the story is… if you're searching for a video, just use Google.

In the meantime I'm now sitting back and watching (literally watching the logs) the millions of users getting a nice 404 since I re-located it. It's almost like watching a stupid person repetitively banging their head hard against a brick wall.