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	<title>things of sorts</title>
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	<description>SEO, PHP, HTML, AJAX, JS, and life</description>
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		<title>How passionate are your users?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a big fuss going on in the education world at the moment about a company called Blackboard acquiring its rival called Angel. There is a lot of commentary and mud-slinging going, so I'll leave it to you to dive into the controversy. In a nutshell, summarized by the Chronicle of Higher Education, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/seosem/how-passionate-are-your-users</link>
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		<title>eKstreme.com Has Moved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're reading this, you're reading eKstreme.com on its new home. Pat your ISP on the back for having quick DNS changes  

Why the move? Three reasons:


Costs.
Speed.
A good opportunity to upgrade the backend.

Yes the third reason is not, alone, grounds for moving servers, but combined in, it's a great chance to do some house [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/seosem/ekstreme.com-has-moved</link>
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		<title>Google Alerts Now Spell Checks the Queries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I've been noticing a lot of weird hits coming in via my Google Alerts emails. I've dug into it and I think I've figured out what's going on: Google Alerts is spell checking the queries and matching the queries as it would do in a search. This in addition to matching the Alert queries [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/fun-web/google-alerts-now-spell-checks-the-queries</link>
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		<title>Bye Bye MyBlogLog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi MyBlogLog!

Part of what makes me so special is my ability to automatically add you to communities in which you have shown a repeated interest.  I have just added you to the following communities:

1) Garbage Bin
http://go2/dev/null

Bonus -- The &#34;Hot in My Garbage Bing&#34; box on your My Home page will keep getting worse and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/fun-web/bye-bye-mybloglog</link>
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		<title>Hey YouTube: UK = GB, and both are English</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I see help messages that just leave me speechless. This message from YouTube about my automatically-set language preferences goes above and beyond anything I've seen in a long time because it has two big &#34;WTF moments&#34;:

The problems?

The red circles: The suggestion that English (UK) is different from English (GB). Psst. They're the same thing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/fun-web/hey-youtube-uk-gb-and-both-are-english</link>
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		<title>Yahoo! Search Doing a SERPs Usability Survey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[submit_url = "http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/fun-web/yahoo-search-doing-a-serps-usability-survey";

I was just searching with Yahoo! and I saw a survey request from &#34;Yahoo! Surveys&#34;. It was a big purple box to the immediate right of the results list, and it was anchored to the bottom of the screen (so even if I scrolled down, it went down too). I clicked on it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/fun-web/yahoo-search-doing-a-serps-usability-survey</link>
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		<title>The SEOmoz Linkscape Ghost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you're part of the SEO industry, unless you've been livining under a rock for the past couple of days, you will know that SEOmoz launched a new tool called Linkscape, to much fanfare. First things first, congrats and kudos are due to the SEOmoz team for building such a complex beast. It's not easy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/fun-web/the-seomoz-linkscape-ghost</link>
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		<title>I Want Your Horror Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen: I'm writing a post next week and I need your help. I want stories from the trenches about how developers and SEOs talk (or not...) with each other.

Comment below. If you want to remain anonymous, please let me know.

Want an example? @Harith on twitter.]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/fun-web/i-want-your-horror-stories</link>
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		<title>Announcing Cligs: Short URLs with Analytics and SEO Friendliness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That's right folks, the short URL market is broken and I'm fixing it. The new service is called Cligs (like Clicks but with a G). It's a short URL service on steroids. The key feature is that it tracks the clicks of the short URLs.

What kind of analytics do you get? At launch right now:
Cligs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/fun-web/announcing-cligs-short-urls-with-analytics-and-seo-friendliness</link>
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		<title>New Stealth Crawler from Yahoo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past few months, I've been tracking a crawler from Yahoo! that does not identify itself on my science blog. The bot's details are:
Requested page: /science/converting-blood-groups
At: 06 May 2008 10:21:05 AM GMT
Routed to: /index.php
Referred from: http://blogsci.com/science/converting-blood-groups
Remote: crawl1.image.srch.kr1.yahoo.com (203.212.174.181)
Request: HTTP/1.1 GET
Accepting: HTTP: */*Charset: Enconding: Languages: 
UA: 
Cookies: 

Notice a few interesting details: No user-agent string, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ekstreme.com/thingsofsorts/web-programming/new-stealth-crawler-from-yahoo</link>
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