IQ News: Spreading the Usenet - SuperNews Repositions

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After three years of offering Internet service providers access to Usenet news groups, San Jose, Calif.-based SuperNews has a new focus and a new name. Usenet is perhaps the last content on the Web to be commercialized.
The company relaunches today as remarQ Communities, and also has struck a deal with Redwood City, Calif.-based Excite that links an Excite-branded newsgroups search tool to Excite’s front page. In addition, those who use the Excite search tool will automatically receive results both from the Web and relevant newsgroups.
“We’ve been thinking about the different types of content sources consumers are interested in getting access to,” said Kris Carpenter, director of search services at Excite.




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