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Jazzanova – Glow and Glare

http://www.last.fm/music/Jazzanova

John Coltrane – Mr. P.C.

http://www.last.fm/music/John+Coltrane

Nana Mouskouri – Romance

http://www.last.fm/music/Nana+Mouskouri

The Proclaimers – It’s Saturday Night

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Proclaimers

Donald Byrd – The Dude

http://www.last.fm/music/Donald+Byrd

Johannes Brahms – A Thema Chorale St Antoni Andante

http://www.last.fm/music/Johannes+Brahms

Claude Debussy – Clair de Lune

http://www.last.fm/music/Claude+Debussy

Bryan Ferry – The way you look tonight

http://www.last.fm/music/Bryan+Ferry

ABBA – The Name of the Game

http://www.last.fm/music/ABBA

Earl Klugh – A Natural Thing

http://www.last.fm/music/Earl+Klugh

Don’t Index This Page

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

Controlling how search engines access and index your website

1/26/2007 11:36:00 AM
Posted by Dan Crow, Product Manager

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.

It’s interesting that this is still such a big problem that it deserves a place in the Google Blog. The robots.txt file has been around for web aeons. Yet apparently people are still complaining that Google indexes too much of their stuff.

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Australian megafauna

Mega-marsupials once roamed Australia - CNN.com

CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) — Marsupial lions, kangaroos as tall as trucks and wombats the size of a rhinoceros roamed Australia’s outback before being killed off by fires lit by arriving humans, scientists said on Thursday.

The giant animals lived in the arid Nullarbor desert around 400,000 years ago, but died out around 50,000 years ago, relatively shortly after the arrival of human settlers, according to new fossil skeletons found in caves.

Fossilized remains were uncovered almost intact in a series of three deep caves in the center of the Nullarbor desert — east of the west coast city of Perth — in October 2002.

“Three subsequent expeditions produced hundreds of fossils so well-preserved that they constitute a veritable “Rosetta Stone for Ice-Age Australia”, expedition leader Gavin Prideaux said of the find, detailed in the latest edition of the journal Nature.

The team discovered 69 species of mammals, birds and reptiles, including eight new species of kangaroo, some standing up to 9 feet tall.

Protected from wind and rain, and undisturbed due to their remote location, the remains of the mega-beasts are in near-perfect condition, including the first-ever complete skeleton of a marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex.

Super-cool.