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deusx : Bit.ly Builds Business on Libya Domain | Workbench - "So the names must conform to Islamic morality, and it's possible that the use of the domains could fall under the same rules. What are the odds that some of those 20 million clicks on a Bit.ly-shortened URL end up at sites that would be conside
nelson : bit.ly and Libya - Small look into what it means for bit.ly to be based on Libya
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deusx : Sam Ruby: Canonical Reverse Or Wisdom Defying Shorturl? - "# There is too few data points to conclude that there is any acceleration going on. The data we have is consistent with acceleration. It also is consistent with there being a few minor relationships being defined a year, and a “major” one bein
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Simon Willison : Counting the ways that rev="canonical" hurts the Web - Counting the ways that rev=“canonical” hurts the Web. Mark Nottingham complains about misapplied trust (a page can falsely claim to be the canonical URL for another page), the easy confusion between rev and rel and the lack of discussion with releva
deusx : mnot’s Web log: Counting the ways that rev="canonical" hurts the Web - "That’s because while I was watching the kids rolling down the grass slope on top of Parliament House, rev="canonical" started to gain some serious momentum, billing itself as a way to shorten URLs that “doesn’t hurt the Internet.”
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Kellan : rev=canonical: url shortening that doesn’t hurt the internet - A URL shortener that implements rev=”canonical”. #
deusx : rev=canonical: url shortening that doesn't hurt the internet - "RevCanonical is url shortening with a twist. Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link element. If not, we just return the origin
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deusx : URL Shortening Hinting - Laughing Meme - "Kevin Marks suggested rel=”canonical” and when I said that was the opposite of what I wanted replied rev=”canonical” is by definition the opposite of rel=”canonical”, but in practice people don’t grok rev. I had never heard of “link
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