I've taken steps to make retarded search engines, from valid sources or spamming sources, work for me. If you take the time to log and examine your 404 errors, you can do this too.

I use WordPress as my blogging platform. There are two WordPress plugins I use to take advantage of 404 errors produced by retarded search engines. If you use a different platform, there may be plugins for it as well. If not, you can do it with your server log files and an ".htaccess" file, it's just harder.

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