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Title

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Length

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Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and culture at Wired.com.

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  • Google DoubleClick Caught Serving Malicious Ad
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  • Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks
  • Then and Now: Repeat Photography Captures Changing Landscapes
  • DJ App Makes Your iPad as Dope as Dre
  • Underworld Moon Gophers and Other Sinister Truths
  • Fake Watchful Eyes Discourage Naughty Behavior
  • The Right Gift for the Geek Who Has It All
  • Dec. 10, 1626: Measurement Man Meets the Measure of His Days
  • Vaporware 2010: Call for Submissions
  • Copyright Troll Demands Drudge Report Domain Name
  • Google's Netbook Has Its Head in the Cloud
  • Tricks of the Movie Promotion Trade
  • A Non-Sucky Guide to Siphoning
  • Wired Beer Tournament Set for Grand Finale
  • We Look at Google Chrome OS, Nexus S, Android 2.3
  • Photos: Are These iPad 2 Cases?
  • Pro-Wikileaks Attacks Sputter After Counterattacks and Dissent Over Tactics
  • Comedy Quarterly The Devastator Vaporizes Sci-Fi
  • Once-Yanked Alien Musical Video Now Approved by Modest Mouse
  • Trailer: Transformers 3 Reimagines Historic Moon Landing
  • Google DoubleClick Caught Serving Malicious Ad
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  • Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks
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Website owners usually use robots.txt to let search engines know which pages or sections of their site shouldn't be indexed — for example, web contact forms, print versions of web pages and other content that's duplicated elsewhere on the site. Robots.txt can also be used to request that specific robots not index a site. For more information, read How To Use Robots.txt.

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Learn more about why you should have just one home page: Read Twin Home Pages: Classic SEO Mistake

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Get people to a specific web page

Creating a redirect from a simple domain name helps people find an existing web page that has a long, hard-to-remember URL. For example firefox.com redirects to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.

8 domains redirect to a page within Wired.com.
harveyfeldspar.com
redirects to: http://wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/local
hotwired.com
redirects to: http://wired.com/video
socialsixsense.com
redirects to: http://wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-07/st_thompson
socialsixthsense.com
redirects to: http://wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-07/st_thompson
disruptivebydesign.com
redirects to: http://wired.com/wiredbizprogram
lawrencecorso.com
redirects to: http://wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/brain.html?pg=1
acmenoveltywarehouse.com
redirects to: http://wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/15-07/found
davidlynehambrown.com
redirects to: http://wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/ted_zimbardo?currentPage=all
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