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- ↑ "tour-de-babel - steveyegge2". sites.google.com.
- ↑ “Amazon attempted to solve these problems by gradually shifting work off Obidos and moving to a distributed system called Gurupa.” Amazon.Com, Inc. v. Comm'r, 148 T.C. No. 8, 106 (U.S.T.C. Mar. 23, 2017)
- ↑ "Amazon - Obidos". Google Maps. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
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