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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

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U; en)" (among others) while the Google search engine bot goes by"Googlebot/2.1 (+[link] (among others). Copyright © 2008 by Christopher Heng. Should I Use PHP or HTML for My Website? It will appear on your page as: How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess Copyright © 2008 by Christopher Heng.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Topsy , for example, does respect the content producer — so morons using “Python-urllib/1.17″ or “AppEngine-Google; (+[link] appid: mapthislink)&# could obey the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), too. Also, it’s too dumb to follow chained redirects, by the way. Don’t be shy. Go rant away. Thanks in advance!

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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This likely means something like Google Analytics , although there is a very large universe of equivalent tools out there as well. Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable. Where it might look something like: 1000, profile.photo.update, 1, 9:30AM 3/14/2008. Make sense? as you go.

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