Disabling Google and Other Search Engines From Crawling a Site

Reader question: I have a online database of horror movies, and I have a good Google rank. In my traffic logs I noted the last month a really growing of the bandwidth: one of the most important browsers of the server logs is Googlebot, so this traffic was generated for the spidering engine of Google. I have the 20 Gb bandwidth limit and I don't…

The Role of Hope In Business

Whether or not we apply non-physical applications to the expansion of our business, there is a non-physical element that can play a major role, if we use it.

Understanding Floating Point Formats

Under ordinary circumstances, you don't have to know or care how numbers are represented within your programs. However, when you are transferring data files that contain numbers, you will have to convert if the storage formats are not identical. If the numbers are just integers, that's fairly easy because the only differences will be the length and the byte order: how many bytes the number…

One-Two-Three Punch Marketing

Printed material is just as important today as it was before the Internet. With sp*am getting out of hand, it's a wise choice to rev up, update or create printed material, ads, catalogs, direct mail, press releases, letters, templates and the like.