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If you had to deal with short-term duplicated content on a news site (perhaps publishing a story on two different URLs over one day), what would you do in order to avoid any penalty from a duplicate content filter? Computerklaus, São Paulo, Brazil  

Matt Cutts shares his thoughts on the “How Search Works” website, which gives a visual explanation of Google’s algorithms, crawls, indexing and spam, more.

How does Google handle duplicate content and what negative effects can it have on rankings from an SEO perspective? Gary Taylor, Stratford Upon Avon, UK  

For one customer we have about a dozen individual websites for different countries and languages, with different TLDs under one IP number. Is this okay for Google or do you prefer one IP number per country TLD? Yves Luther, Germany