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Crazy! 

According to Matt Cutt's blog, it's now safe to end a webpage name with ".0" (dot zero).  Until today, a webpage that ended with ".0" (say, "mywebpage.0") wouldn't be indexed by Google.  This wasn't widely known, and caused some problems when seomoz.org tried to post a page ending in ".0". When Google found out, they reconsidered, and made the changes necessary to allow Google to index those pages, too.  Apparently, most files that end in ".0" are binary files, and Google tries not to index binary files.  That's why those pages were originally excluded.

Along those same lines: It's still not okay to end a file in ".exe", ".tar", ".tgz" (and probably more) because these are file extensions for binary file types.  Google won't index pages with names that end like that!

What's this mean to you?  Stick with giving your web page file standard names like ".htm", ".html", or the extension to whatever scripting language you use...