djmick200 - 12:30 pm on Dec 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

cabbagehead says: Let's say that I have a page with 1,000 lines of HTML output. 700 of those lines are my template (header + footer + hidden DHTML layers for navigational bar). From the user's perspective those 300 lines of unique content justify the existance of the page but at a purely quantifiable level - the page is 70% the same. And let's say there are thousands of pages that share these 700 lines for the template. Question: Does this constitute a duplicate page or not? Where is the threshold? Please talk to us about this as *Engineers*, not bloggers just looking for talking points.

Id be very interested hearing a comment on this also. To the end users pages are unique, to a bot they have 70% shared code.

Use TLDs: To help us serve the most appropriate version of a document, use top level domains whenever possible to handle country-specific content. We're more likely to know that .de indicates Germany-focused content, for instance, than /de or de.example.com.

Also a further comment on this quote would be helpful e.g. a .co.uk tld with content that is NOT specifically aimed at the UK, would that site be more likely to rank lower worldwide? would google interpret that site as being UK focused?