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Opera 90.1

2006-08-09T10:24:00+01:00

I've heard about version number jumps for marketing purposes, but this latest move by browser producer Opera, springing 81 releases, verges on the ridiculous.

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Slashdot adopts HTML 4, CSS; Hell freezing over

2005-09-22T16:50:00+01:00

The former technical news forum Slashdot , currently masquerading as a repository for duplicated posts, has adopted HTML 4.01 and CSS .

The move comes as flying porcine creatures were seen being ejected at speed accompanied by clouds of dry ice from a deep shaft signed "to Purgatory" near Andover, Massachussets, USA.

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blogsearch.google.com

2005-09-14T05:44:00+01:00

" Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. ": blogsearch.google.com

Another Google product celebrating the Decade of the Beta Web Service.

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Google Sitemaps

2005-06-03T22:58:00+01:00

Hmm, interesting. More info from Google here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html and there's also a Google group .

Webmaster World has a thread in its Supporter's Forum .

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aipbot - www.aipbot.com

2005-04-11T07:21:00+01:00

This bot or website spider has been sniffing around various sites, or rather snorting them down in copious amounts. It looks like this in the webserver logs (Apache):

GET /file.html HTTP/1.0" 200 12345 "-" "aipbot/1.0 (aipbot; http://www.aipbot.com; aipbot@aipbot.com)

The site www.aipbot.com is just a domain registry service's default catchall page with no information about the bot - grounds enough for a complete block of the IP address (currently 24.177.134.6 ). I don't have the time to experiment whether it will respect any entry in robots.txt .

The only other information available about this bot is from WebmasterWorld.com , which indicates the bot has also masqueraded under the name of abot .

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Firefox and Mozilla: prefetch

2005-04-03T17:24:00+01:00

Just when you thought it was safe to surf the Internet again - up pops another worrisome browser "feature" , this time in Mozilla-based browsers including Firefox.

This feature goes by the name of prefetch , and it's been around for several years but has never got much attention until Google announced the introduction of "Enhanced searching with Firefox".

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