After some of you told me that something was going awry with my Page Popularity Gadget, I patched it so that the strange characters would not show up anymore. For those unfamiliar with it, this gadget displays some site popularity scores, such as GoogleRank, Alexa Rank and pages that link to a given site. It can be used as an iGoogle gadget or it can be used as an embedded widget on your own webpages.

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