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    # http://kellishaver.tumblr.com/post/54922678930/quick-tip-canonical-urls
    # Building a site that handles link submissions? Check submitted links for a canonical URL tag to avoid duplicates.
    # Similarly, if you’re a content creator and you’re not using the canonical URL tag, you should be!

    def canonical(url)
    begin
    page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))
    page.css("link[rel=canonical]")[0]["href"]
    rescue
    url
    end
    end