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In the past few hours, I’ve discovered and blocked at least six web crawlers trying to go through the site and download everything as quickly as possible, in violation of the rules in our robots.txt file. Two of them seemed to be focusing on the posts related to the Georgia crisis.

Fact: Gartner now says that “Web 2.0 software” is falling from its “Peak of Inflated Expectations” and is on its way to a “Trough of Disillusionment.”  However, Gartner finds that wiki software has traversed that path already and is now well on its way up again to mature enterprise acceptance as a valuable productivity tool.

The first protesters arrive… As everybody knows, it was always a matter of ‘when’ not ‘if’ stunt protesters would descend on the Beijing Olympics. Sure enough, today somebody climbed a 100-foot electrical pole near the Olympic Green to fly a “One World, One Dream, Free Tibet” flag for the length of time it took the Beijing Fire Department and PSB to arrive and take it down.

Toyota has developed competition for the Segway.

Can CUIL touch GOOGLE??? Can you imagine trying to start a retail business and going after MACYS? A start-up led by former star Google engineers, unveiled a new Web search service this week that aims to outdo the Internet search leader GOOGLE in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.

SEO enables search engine crawlers to read your content, helping them extract relevant keywords to give your site high ranks. Bear in mind, however, that your human readers look at the content with a different pair of eyes. This is Part 8 of a 10-part series entitled “10 Myths About SEO.” You can see the entire catalog on Clicksharp’s YouTube Channel.

AdSense may be one of the fastest and easiest ways to monetize traffic to your web site whether you have products or services for sale or you simply provide free content to your visitors. Simply stated, Google AdSense enables website operators to place some code on their site that connects to Google’s ad server content database and pulls keyword-relevant advertising onto the web pages.

Vacation is over and I'm back to my regular schedule again! Today we're going to take these strips as literally as possible and extrapolate them out to the point where it's so ridiculous, it's funny (hopefully).

Some time ago, The Guardian’s Charlie Brooker wrote an article knocking the idea that 9/11 was some sort of demonic conspiracy by sinister industrial-military stakeholders in the US government. No ways, argued Charlie, for conspirators to bypass the gigantic pile of bureaucratic dust that is likely to be required in order to commission a governmental shady operation.

And speaking of ASCII… (NSFW)