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Excerpt: Document scanning is about converting your documents into forms that are stored electronically to save space. However,a secondary reason why you might want to consider document scanning is as  source of content for your website that can be spidered and indexed. While the opportunities for major keywords may not be there. It can be a useful way of obtaining long-tail searches especially for technical specifications, user manuals and other documents which are very detailed and specific. The technique is less useful if there are already copies of the information online as they will be flagged as duplicate content. One of the…

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Excerpt: We think that we are pretty smart by having 2 TB hard-drives and we are. This is an amazing amount of data to store in a small space.  How much storage is required to store the entire collection of books in the world? We can make a start by considering how data is stored. A binary digit can store two values, either a 1 or 0. Put two of them together and you can represent four values, 00,01, 10 and 11. For three bits eight values can be stored. In fact for n bits, you can represent 2^n values. If we…