Type the following as a WordPress comment and see the fun:
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Imagine Company X provides a service. X is nice enough to offer it for free to education and non-profit sites. However in exchange for the generosity ACME demands that education & non-profit sites place a link on all of their pages to two of X's main products. Would you consider that a link scheme which is in violation of Google's Webmaster guidelines? Think carefully before you answer for you may be surprised.

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Most link extractors I know, including the function in WordPress to linkify comments, incorrectly assumes that any text containing http:// is a hyperlink including obvious mistakes like the following:
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When you declare a function in your plugin code which has already been declared previously in either WordPress code or in one of the plugins. To prevent this you should declare your functions like this:
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Today I was introduced the nice (as I hear) Web 2.0 application which enables 1-click uploading of images. It sounded great and it was a public beta, so I didn't think twice (my mistake) before signing up for it. I activated by email and I was raring to go… and then disaster struck.

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You have two options. Either you tear your (remaining) hair looking for solution on the web and trying different changes to Apache Web Server or Explorer even try magic incantations (alohamora?). Or you read below for a simple one liner solution.

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Believe it or not, I am looking to stock some tamiflu just in case. I have asked our medicine supplier (yes, we have one) to get me 2-3 strips. There is a strong possibility that the H5N1 (Avian Flu) outbreak may not be controlled in time before it does significant damage to West Bengal & India.

Avian Flu has affected over half of West Bengal, India. It has even been detected 40 km (kilometers) away from where I live (Kolkata). It appears the state government has responded too little too late to contain the Avian Flu. An estimated 1,00,000+ chickens have died due to H5N1 virus. Human infection too has been suspected. The bottom line is:
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Google had a well known proxy facility. You could use
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Last Sunday I went to IIT Alumni picnic in Ibiza resort in Kolkata. Check the slideshow (thanks to Siddharth Roy Chowdhury @ SAIL). Can you spot me?

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