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Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times
An anonymous reader writes "The Google cache is a popular feature among karma fetishists. Many stories with links to the NY Times attract comments pointing to Google's copy of the article. This gives readers access to the content without registering. C|Net reports that Google is in talks with the NY Times to close this backdoor. The article raises some general concerns regarding the caching of webcontent. Shouldn't the NY Times simply tell Google not to cache their site?"
Now we can't karma whore by linking to the google cache?
(I confess, I usually click on every /.-story link)
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You gave them an actual, working, email address? How ...quaint.
Me, I'm a 66 year old single woman with no income, no education, and lives in a nonexistant Swedish town with a very rude (in Swedish) name. I figured that any site advertiser that want's to target this person must be desperate enough that their ads may actually be amusing.
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