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StopBadware.org is a partnership among academic institutions, technology industry leaders, and volunteers, all of whom are committed to protecting Internet and computer users from the threats to privacy and security that are caused by bad software. We are a leading independent authority on trends in badware and its distribution, and a focal point for the development of collaborative, community-minded approaches to stopping badware.

AOL sees microformats as increasingly important to its business. By properly utilizing hNews we can now clearly define which blocks of content are specific to the article content as apposed to the cross promotional content or ads also found on the page which can dilute the relevance of a particular page as seen by search engines." Sounds like a technique that will be used for seo purposes as well..

MyStartSite is a personalized homepage allowing you to search multiple sites, provides easy access to your favorite sites, and allows you to receive news headlines. As a customizable homepage, you can also store your favorite bookmarks and receive news headlines (from RSS feeds).

In February 2001, Google rescued that history when it acquired the New York-based Deja.com, and with it a Usenet archive going back to 1995. It turned the archive into Google Groups, in a move that was cheered by net geeks who had seen Deja’s reliability declining, and were certain that the supremely competent Google would save it." "Flash forward nearly eight years, and visiting Google Groups is like touring ancient ruins. On the surface, it looks as clean and shiny as every other Google service, which makes its rotting interior all the more jarring — like visiting Disneyland and finding broken windows and graffiti on Main Street USA. Searching within a newsgroup, even one with thousands of posts, produces no results at all. Confining a search to a range of dates also fails silently, bulldozing the most obvious path to exploring an archive.