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Google Enters Financial Products Comparisons Market

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Search engine giant Google has made its entree into an area long dominated by Southern California technology startups: financial products and leads generation. According to Google Thursday, it has launched Google Advisor , a new service to help users find mortgage, credit card, CD, or checking and savings account offers and rates.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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The Southern California locale benefits from its easy proximity to Silicon Valley, just an hours flight away, as well as from the many universities in the area, including Cal Tech, where Intel founder Gordon Moore went to school. startup scene so hot. Number two, necessity is the mother of all invention. Learn more.

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

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all you have is the web statistics provided by your web host or a free web statistics and analytics service you wont be able to get the information you need to block the bot. You can read more about how to subscribe toRSS site feeds from my RSS FAQ. You need to have a specific bot that you wish to block. Please link to us.

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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. It’s hosted by Rackspace, which is a hosting service that obviously doesn’t care much about its reputation.