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22nd January 2008 - Link Blog

RSS Duplicate Detection. “Detecting duplicate items in an RSS feed is something of a black art”. I hadn’t realised quite how involved such a basic function of an aggregator could be.

Posted 22nd January 2008 at 8:11 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd January 2008.

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