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Dissecting Google thumbnails (ht4.ca)
31 points by cjoudrey on March 24, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



"The thumbnails are sent with a expiry time of 1 day from a server running snapshot_btfe. No surprise there."

I couldn't find what "snapshot_btfe" is. Can somebody explain it to me please?


I'm assuming it's the codename of their custom built thumbnail server.


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