Official Google Blog: The Robots Exclusion Protocol

Official Google Blog: The Robots Exclusion Protocol
This is the second in a short series of posts about the Robots Exclusion Protocol, the standard for controlling how web pages on your site are indexed. This post provides more details and examples of mechanisms to control access and indexing of your website by Google.

Official Google Blog: Controlling how search engines access and index your website

Official Google Blog: Controlling how search engines access and index your website
I’m often asked about how Google and search engines work. One key question is: how does Google know what parts of a website the site owner wants to have show up in search results? Can publishers specify that some parts of the site should be private and non-searchable? The good news is that those who publish on the web have a lot of control over which pages should appear in search results.

The key is a simple file called robots.txt that has been an industry standard for many years. It lets a site owner control how search engines access their web site. With robots.txt you can control access at multiple levels — the entire site, through individual directories, pages of a specific type, down to individual pages. Effective use of robots.txt gives you a lot of control over how your site is searched, but its not always obvious how to achieve exactly what you want. This is the first of a series of posts on how to use robots.txt to control access to your content.

ShouldDoThis.com launches

Coming from the same creators of 43 Things 43 Places, 43 People, Lists Of Bests, All Consuming.net, The Petri Project, The Robot Co-op has launched a new Website, ShouldDoThis.com, that allows any user to create a suggestion box and submit a suggestion for any company, product, government agency, non-profit, sports team, neighborhood association an

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Screencasts of uncommon browser features [dive into mark]

Let’s not and say we did [dive into mark]
# Introduction to tabbed browsing
# Opening links in a new tab
# Bookmarking a group of tabs
# Using a group of tabs as the home page
# Rearranging tabs
# Introduction to live bookmarks
# Introduction to spell checking
# Introduction to search engines
# Adding a search engine
# Removing a search engine
# Installing an add-on
# Changing add-on options
# Enabling and disabling add-ons
# Uninstalling add-ons
# Installing a new theme
# Switching between installed themes
# Uninstalling a theme
# Adding a Print button to the toolbar
# Rearranging buttons on the toolbar
# Removing buttons from the toolbar
# Changing the size of toolbar buttons

10 minutes to run every Windows app on your Ubuntu desktop

This simple guide will bring up the Windows start menu inside GNOME and allow you to run, use and install any Windows app (that can run in a VM) inside your existing desktop. It takes about 10 minutes to setup, minus the time to install Windows, and involves one command in total.

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