July 2008
3 posts
IP address and geo location
Japanese company ‘Cyber Area Research’ provides web service API to get location from IP address. It returns Japanese area data.
Docodoco.jp
This service is provided as free for personal & non-commercial use. For company users, it provides as pay-you-go, which is based on number of your requests.
There is a similar service which is community-based service and provided for free.
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A Small Design Study Of Big Blogs
The following is quoted from the results of an analysis of 50 popular blogs according to Technorati’s Top 100.
A Small Design Study Of Big Blogs
large blogs require a multi-column layout solution (usually 3 columns suffice) (58%);
layouts are usually centered (94%),
layouts usually have a fixed width (px-based) (92%),
the width of the fixed layout varies between 951 and 1000px (56%),
58%...
Search Engine Bots IP Address
There are information of major search engine bots.
How to verify Googlebot
Yahoo! Search Crawler, Slurp, has a new Address and Signature Card
Search Robots in Disguise (MSN)
There is an investigation results at 主なhttpクロウラーのIPアドレスレンジを調査 (Investigation of IP Address range of Major HTTP Crawler - Japanese page.)
Google
Yahoo!
MSN
Another reference of Googlebot.
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