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I was looking at my server logs this evening, and noticed the following:

66.249.66.35 www.cheaphotels-bristol.co.uk – [03/Aug/2009:23:21:23 +0000] “GET /?hotel_min_price=80&hotel_max_price=40&hotel_order=name_asc HTTP/1.1″ 200 4998 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”
66.249.66.35 www.cheaphotels-bristol.co.uk – [03/Aug/2009:23:22:53 +0000] “GET /?hotel_min_price=60&hotel_max_price=200&hotel_order=distance HTTP/1.1″ 200 58235 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”
66.249.66.35 www.cheaphotels-bristol.co.uk – [03/Aug/2009:23:24:23 +0000] “GET /?hotel_min_price=60&hotel_max_price=150&hotel_order=price_asc HTTP/1.1″ 200 56684 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”
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As a quick follow up to my nofollow marker post, I’ve put up a new version of the extension. It does exactly the same job as the old one, except without the need for any JavaScript. The new extension simply uses the following CSS:
a[rel~=nofollow]
{
background-color: #FCC !important;
border: 1px dashed #F55 !important;
color: #600 !important;
}
I should really have thought [...]

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I spent a couple of hours tonight putting together a simple web site profiling tool. It allows you to see some useful information about a page, including it’s server IP address and location, the domain name contact, and some of the outgoing links from that site.
It’s worth noting that the tool crawls roughly five [...]

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I spent a couple of hours tonight putting together a simple web site profiling tool. It allows you to see some useful information about a page, including it’s server IP address and location, the domain name contact, and some of the outgoing links from that site.
It’s worth noting that the tool crawls roughly five [...]

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Wade and I have been fairly actively blogging for a few weeks now, and every so often, we check analytics and webmaster tools accounts for what keywords people have used to find our sites. Finding out that he ranked number one for “anti-gravity mice” has caused Wade to go on a bit of a rampage [...]

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