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To the average Internet users spams are the unwanted junk mails that we receive in our email in-box. However for people who run a website and especially those who maintain a blog or forum, spams are more than junk mails. There are referral spams and comments spams for web master to deal with. Both are created by spam robots that visit a site and create links that point to the spammer's web site on the web pages they just visited. They do it because they believe this will boost their web site ranking in search engines because search engines think that web pages with a lot of other web sites pointing to them are important. Some also hope that visitors to your site will click on those links that will bring these unsuspecting visitors to their site and sort of get a free ad from your site. To make the situation worse  the people who run these spam scams are mostly from unethical and immoral web sites. These will make your site look bad if you have a family oriented site because these links that are deposited on your blog or forum will bring your visitors to those unhealthy web sites. Your visitors may think that those links are actually from your site or are approved or endorsed by you the web master.Some of these spammers are so inconsiderate that they will spam a site repeatedly non stop within a short period of time. These result in huge bandwidth taken up by these unethical and inconsiderate rascals.  Spam is a fact of life if you have a blog. Our weblog was faced with a spam attack the past weeks. We have been busy implementing a series of spam protection plug-ins and activated many built-in-tools in our blog software to increase our defence against the spammers. For now we can take a breather and get back to creating contents, work on the graphics and images than spending unproductive time monitoring and fighting spams. On a positive note while checking over our themes and designs to make it less attractive and worthwhile for the spammer to target our blog, this has allowed us to to take a fresh and deeper look at our blog, resulting in us deciding to rework a new theme for our blog.  You will see our new theme up soon in a matter of days when we clean up the loose-ends and of course we hope you like it better. |
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A search on Google on Omni-Explorer shows a series of negative views on this search spider. They claim to be a venture-backed start-up search company, in short another “me too” search engine start-up after Google IPO. Unfortunately Omni-Explorer is already branded as a spam robot by most websites. We are hit by this evil robot last week gobbling up bandwidth faster than all other visitors combined in a single day. Their website have a single out-dated page explaining what they do and claim that they obey Robot.txt files. It appears that they never obeyed what is on the Robot.txt files. This evil robot just trespass to files and directories that we do not wish to be listed on search engines. So far all other major search engines follow the instructions on our robot.txt files except this devil crawler. Enough is enough. Like most other websites, Omni-explorer is now permanently banned from our site. No question about Omni-Explorer being venture-backed but venturing of their crawlers to our site just ended last week.  |
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The images and photos on this site are designed specifically for web presentation. As such their resolution, colour fidelity, image size and image sharpness are enhanced and developed for its intended purposes. At the moment we have no intention for it to be used for any other area as our main objective now is in developing this website. We are also currently busy working on another website. We are flattered  with request to use these photos in other applications other than what we intended it for. Unfortunately we can't meet your request at this moment. However we will keep your request in mind and will not rule out the possibility of expanding to those areas in the future. When the time comes we will surely announce it on our main site. Thank you for your support. |
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We would like to say thank you to a visitor to our website who alerted us on our oversight of a flower which should be called grape hyacinths instead of blue tulip in Slide No. 4 of the Keukenhof Slide Show. We have updated the caption with the proper name of the flower. Sorry for the mistake. Thank you to Nathaniel of Guam (base on his IP Address). |
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