Google Adds To Groups
By Nathan Weinberg
Expert Author
Article Date: 2006-02-10
Philipp reports that Google has added rating of Google Groups messages (with a five star system), as well as author profiles which include a posting history.
Presumably designed to eventually cut down on the visibility of spam, you can click on the star ratings to rate the better (or awful) messages. The profiles available for posters initially show the person's posting history, linking you even more to every stupid thing you say in a newsgroup.
This comes on the very day Microsoft releases to a select group the first of several high-profile social websites. Whether or not Google is intentionally trying to compete with Expo and other unannounced Windows Live projects that are designed to work with a sense of community is not the issue, just that it helps that Google is trying well to adapt to the needs of a growing market.
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