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	<title>Comments on: Google rank spammer who steal blog content above authors!</title>
	<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/</link>
	<description>Marketing and Advertising Agency &#124; Company located in Boston, MA</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Adam</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-15720</link>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-15720</guid>
		<description>It just happened to me, I can't believe that. My blog http://www.blog.blastyle.com has something like 20-30 users daily and suddenly I found out that there is a blog which is a twin copy of my site. What is even funnier- the images are hosted on my server so he is stealing both content and my bandwidth. 

I got really pissed off and now I will try to do all that I can to stop / decrease / minimize the prosperity of that guy's website.. I already wrote an email to the hosting company and I'm thinking about writing to google.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class='eg-image' style='float:left; margin-right:10px; display:block; width:60px' ><a rel='external nofollow' href='http://www.blog.blastyle.com'><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=c009b7b2ad0c6213e79db5d0986e13a0&amp;size=60&amp;rating=G&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techwebmedia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnophoto2.jpg' width='60' height='60' alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 easygravatar' /></a></span>It just happened to me, I can&#8217;t believe that. My blog <a href="http://www.blog.blastyle.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.blog.blastyle.com</a> has something like 20-30 users daily and suddenly I found out that there is a blog which is a twin copy of my site. What is even funnier- the images are hosted on my server so he is stealing both content and my bandwidth. </p>
<p>I got really pissed off and now I will try to do all that I can to stop / decrease / minimize the prosperity of that guy&#8217;s website.. I already wrote an email to the hosting company and I&#8217;m thinking about writing to google.</p>
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		<title>By: K Stewart</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-15238</link>
		<dc:creator>K Stewart</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-15238</guid>
		<description>Hi Rusak,

I sympathize with you. I have just had my article stolen as well and by who? A blogger named Strivem, from you guessed it Zimbio. Were you able to do anything about this?
I don't understand how this is even possible, I too left a message for Zimbio with a link pointing to my artice as it clearly shows that my publish date was before this scum-bags! But, no response from them. I also left a message on this persons blog and it is still there, I can't believe that someone would do this garbage. Hopefully you have been able to take some kind of action, please e-mail me or post it here, I would love to see this Zimbio off of the web. By the way, if I type an exact match into google, his site comes up and my article doesn't, not even through duplicate content, I only have a link to my author page and it is buried. If you haven't picked up on it, I am pisssssssed. Thanks for listening. K. Stewart</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class='eg-image' style='float:left; margin-right:10px; display:block; width:60px' ><a rel='external nofollow' href='http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=958610'><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=861bce30add46bb6d10feae76354d165&amp;size=60&amp;rating=G&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techwebmedia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnophoto2.jpg' width='60' height='60' alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 easygravatar' /></a></span>Hi Rusak,</p>
<p>I sympathize with you. I have just had my article stolen as well and by who? A blogger named Strivem, from you guessed it Zimbio. Were you able to do anything about this?<br />
I don&#8217;t understand how this is even possible, I too left a message for Zimbio with a link pointing to my artice as it clearly shows that my publish date was before this scum-bags! But, no response from them. I also left a message on this persons blog and it is still there, I can&#8217;t believe that someone would do this garbage. Hopefully you have been able to take some kind of action, please e-mail me or post it here, I would love to see this Zimbio off of the web. By the way, if I type an exact match into google, his site comes up and my article doesn&#8217;t, not even through duplicate content, I only have a link to my author page and it is buried. If you haven&#8217;t picked up on it, I am pisssssssed. Thanks for listening. K. Stewart</p>
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		<title>By: TechWeb Media &#124; Google fixed results in 3 days after we reported content thief.</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-785</link>
		<dc:creator>TechWeb Media &#124; Google fixed results in 3 days after we reported content thief.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-785</guid>
		<description>[...] Our post Google rank spammer&#8230; became incredibly popular in blogosphere. Members of Sphinn social network placed our post on [...]</description>
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		<title>By: links for 2008-02-06 oggin.net</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-770</link>
		<dc:creator>links for 2008-02-06 oggin.net</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-770</guid>
		<description>[...] TechWeb Media &#124; Google rank spammer who steal blog content above authors! On January 4, 2008 I wrote article called 52 ways to get quality link and for a long time it was the most popular page on TechWeb Media. We got 5 diggs, 12 Sphinns, credits on other social networks, and at least 3 links from other blogs. On January 13 spa (tags: Google rank spammer) [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] TechWeb Media | Google rank spammer who steal blog content above authors! On January 4, 2008 I wrote article called 52 ways to get quality link and for a long time it was the most popular page on TechWeb Media. We got 5 diggs, 12 Sphinns, credits on other social networks, and at least 3 links from other blogs. On January 13 spa (tags: Google rank spammer) [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Sergey Rusak</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-748</link>
		<dc:creator>Sergey Rusak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-748</guid>
		<description>Response to Amit: Yes, I checked backlinks for this scam blog and did not find any... only one backlink.

Response to Jab: I never report about scrapers because it is just a waste of time. In this case it is different because he stole my Google positions and content. I spent at least 1.5 hours to write this post and at least 1 hour to manage comments, submit in social networks, reply to some emails with questions etc...

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I am really upset that someone stole my content and rank better than me. I don't care about Zimbio network which rank #2 because I submitted my article over there by myself. Zimbio provide my name, link to profile, and link to original post.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class='eg-image' style='float:left; margin-right:10px; display:block; width:60px' ><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=9a8f07363e0a71b00ad62da7ab8a375e&amp;size=60&amp;rating=G&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techwebmedia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnophoto2.jpg' width='60' height='60' alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 easygravatar' /></span>Response to Amit: Yes, I checked backlinks for this scam blog and did not find any&#8230; only one backlink.</p>
<p>Response to Jab: I never report about scrapers because it is just a waste of time. In this case it is different because he stole my Google positions and content. I spent at least 1.5 hours to write this post and at least 1 hour to manage comments, submit in social networks, reply to some emails with questions etc&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>I am really upset that someone stole my content and rank better than me. I don&#8217;t care about Zimbio network which rank #2 because I submitted my article over there by myself. Zimbio provide my name, link to profile, and link to original post.</p>
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		<title>By: Amit</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-747</link>
		<dc:creator>Amit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-747</guid>
		<description>I think this scammer is able to rank better, because his blog is hosted at Blogger. Now was all know about the bias by Google on blogger blogs.

I agree with Jab in the above comment.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class='eg-image' style='float:left; margin-right:10px; display:block; width:60px' ><a rel='external nofollow' href='http://www.directorytotal.com'><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=ec6c9f2c28a8871edd9ca4430e0ca686&amp;size=60&amp;rating=G&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techwebmedia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnophoto2.jpg' width='60' height='60' alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 easygravatar' /></a></span>I think this scammer is able to rank better, because his blog is hosted at Blogger. Now was all know about the bias by Google on blogger blogs.</p>
<p>I agree with Jab in the above comment.</p>
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		<title>By: Jab</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-746</link>
		<dc:creator>Jab</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-746</guid>
		<description>Hmm,...if I would report every scraper of my sites/ content...
But in general, yes. Someone should break both of Raman`s legs, arms and every finger twice.

Jab</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class='eg-image' style='float:left; margin-right:10px; display:block; width:60px' ><a rel='external nofollow' href='http://www.jabz.biz/'><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=478f179d5bf0dd1cb87e38200518adfd&amp;size=60&amp;rating=G&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techwebmedia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnophoto2.jpg' width='60' height='60' alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 easygravatar' /></a></span>Hmm,&#8230;if I would report every scraper of my sites/ content&#8230;<br />
But in general, yes. Someone should break both of Raman`s legs, arms and every finger twice.</p>
<p>Jab</p>
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		<title>By: Todd Mintz</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-745</link>
		<dc:creator>Todd Mintz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-745</guid>
		<description>I guess I am desensitized by this because I see this happen so frequently that I'm not that bothered by it any more (not that it excuses the behavior).  I have to think that their SERP advantage over yours won't last long.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class='eg-image' style='float:left; margin-right:10px; display:block; width:60px' ><a rel='external nofollow' href='http://www.srclarke.com'><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=751f7993a7c7de2aed6117fb9be827e8&amp;size=60&amp;rating=G&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techwebmedia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnophoto2.jpg' width='60' height='60' alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 easygravatar' /></a></span>I guess I am desensitized by this because I see this happen so frequently that I&#8217;m not that bothered by it any more (not that it excuses the behavior).  I have to think that their SERP advantage over yours won&#8217;t last long.</p>
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		<title>By: Estate Agents Maidenhead</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-737</link>
		<dc:creator>Estate Agents Maidenhead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-737</guid>
		<description>Have faith in the Google. If you have reported the site, they will take an action sooner or later.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class='eg-image' style='float:left; margin-right:10px; display:block; width:60px' ><a rel='external nofollow' href='http://www.appleton-estates.com'><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=306678f0ee6fc7774003f19fb069cf8a&amp;size=60&amp;rating=G&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techwebmedia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnophoto2.jpg' width='60' height='60' alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 easygravatar' /></a></span>Have faith in the Google. If you have reported the site, they will take an action sooner or later.</p>
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		<title>By: Jens P. Berget</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-709</link>
		<dc:creator>Jens P. Berget</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-709</guid>
		<description>That would be a great post / story, if you went to Google-Boston. Not that I am hoping that you have to go there, but man that would be interesting :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class='eg-image' style='float:left; margin-right:10px; display:block; width:60px' ><a rel='external nofollow' href='http://www.slymarketing.com'><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=60aafe0cdc3fca745fe21f2559ee287f&amp;size=60&amp;rating=G&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techwebmedia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnophoto2.jpg' width='60' height='60' alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 easygravatar' /></a></span>That would be a great post / story, if you went to Google-Boston. Not that I am hoping that you have to go there, but man that would be interesting <img src='http://www.techwebmedia.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>By: Sergey Rusak</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-708</link>
		<dc:creator>Sergey Rusak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-708</guid>
		<description>I checked this site backlinks and found that they don't have much... I guess that site indexed by Google only because it is BlogSpot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class='eg-image' style='float:left; margin-right:10px; display:block; width:60px' ><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=9a8f07363e0a71b00ad62da7ab8a375e&amp;size=60&amp;rating=G&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techwebmedia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnophoto2.jpg' width='60' height='60' alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 easygravatar' /></span>I checked this site backlinks and found that they don&#8217;t have much&#8230; I guess that site indexed by Google only because it is BlogSpot.</p>
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		<title>By: Sandy Allain</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-707</link>
		<dc:creator>Sandy Allain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-707</guid>
		<description>This is interesting. I hate when people do that. I have several websites myself and I would hate someone to steal my content. How come google rank him before you? this shouldn't be happening. Does he have more links to his sites? better google trust etc...
this make me worried about me writing original content and having someone stealing my stuff.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class='eg-image' style='float:left; margin-right:10px; display:block; width:60px' ><a rel='external nofollow' href='http://www.sandyallain.com'><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=49180efbee6edd104a601d8423623093&amp;size=60&amp;rating=G&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techwebmedia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnophoto2.jpg' width='60' height='60' alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 easygravatar' /></a></span>This is interesting. I hate when people do that. I have several websites myself and I would hate someone to steal my content. How come google rank him before you? this shouldn&#8217;t be happening. Does he have more links to his sites? better google trust etc&#8230;<br />
this make me worried about me writing original content and having someone stealing my stuff.</p>
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		<title>By: Allen Harkleroad</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-704</link>
		<dc:creator>Allen Harkleroad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-704</guid>
		<description>I hate to see folks content pirated, unfortunately there are many unscrupulous people on this planet. I find content tall the time that people have ripped from one of my sites. If it is serious enough I will contact the hosting provider. If the pirated content ranks higher than mine in a search engine, I contact the search engine to see if I can have the site blacklisted or at least removed from the search results for the pirated content. Believe it or not many of the big search engine players will pull content.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class='eg-image' style='float:left; margin-right:10px; display:block; width:60px' ><a rel='external nofollow' href='http://www.fivemilliondots.com/'><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=0665d7e08097d39fa750b9fc959a8b77&amp;size=60&amp;rating=G&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techwebmedia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnophoto2.jpg' width='60' height='60' alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 easygravatar' /></a></span>I hate to see folks content pirated, unfortunately there are many unscrupulous people on this planet. I find content tall the time that people have ripped from one of my sites. If it is serious enough I will contact the hosting provider. If the pirated content ranks higher than mine in a search engine, I contact the search engine to see if I can have the site blacklisted or at least removed from the search results for the pirated content. Believe it or not many of the big search engine players will pull content.</p>
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		<title>By: Sergey Rusak</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-702</link>
		<dc:creator>Sergey Rusak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-702</guid>
		<description>Yes, I am really pissed! I wrote this guy a letter 2 days ago but he did not responded. So, I am going to destroy his blog and business. 
 If I need, I will go to Google-Boston office to protest!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class='eg-image' style='float:left; margin-right:10px; display:block; width:60px' ><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=9a8f07363e0a71b00ad62da7ab8a375e&amp;size=60&amp;rating=G&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techwebmedia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnophoto2.jpg' width='60' height='60' alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 easygravatar' /></span>Yes, I am really pissed! I wrote this guy a letter 2 days ago but he did not responded. So, I am going to destroy his blog and business.<br />
 If I need, I will go to Google-Boston office to protest!</p>
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		<title>By: Jens P. Berget</title>
		<link>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-701</link>
		<dc:creator>Jens P. Berget</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.techwebmedia.com/2008/02/03/google-rank-spammer-who-steal-blog-content-above-authors/#comment-701</guid>
		<description>Great discovery. 

I'll bet that his blog will be removed shortly, he is using blogspot... and they can't tolerate this kind of behavior.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class='eg-image' style='float:left; margin-right:10px; display:block; width:60px' ><a rel='external nofollow' href='http://www.slymarketing.com'><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=60aafe0cdc3fca745fe21f2559ee287f&amp;size=60&amp;rating=G&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techwebmedia.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F06%2Fnophoto2.jpg' width='60' height='60' alt='' class='avatar avatar-60 easygravatar' /></a></span>Great discovery. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ll bet that his blog will be removed shortly, he is using blogspot&#8230; and they can&#8217;t tolerate this kind of behavior.</p>
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