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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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While handling bots, you should detect search engine crawlers, too: /* lookup your crawler IP database to populate $isCrawler; then, if the IP wasnt identified as search engine crawler: */ if ($isCrawler !== from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. compatible; …&#.