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Apr 14, 2008
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Follow-up: That shopautodotca seocontest online contest

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

So I didn't win the shopautodotca seocontest search engine optimization contest, so I decided to check on how the actual winners were faring. After all, one of the winners was supposed to become the company's SEO manager. The top prize winners in the Google category and in the MSN category have both complained that they haven't received their p...

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Apr 14, 2008
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Why doesn't Explorer let you create a file whose name begins with a dot?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Rolf Viehmann asks why Explorer doesn't let you create a file whose name begins with a dot. Such files are considered to have an extension but no name. If the extension is known and the user has chosen to hide known extensions, the resulting file would have no name at all! If you really want to create a file with a leading dot in its name, you a...

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