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==Criticism== | |||
AboutUs has been criticized for stealing private information from websites. The website has a bot witch | |||
takes information from a website and uses it to make an AboutUs Article. Even websites protected by a robots.txt file are still vulnerable due to the fact that the wiki will still encourage AboutUs users to add information about the website to it. | |||
==Articles== | |||
The wiki has over 2,000,000 articles, most of them about websites, due to the fact that the bot the website owns automatically creates most of them. | |||
[[Category:Draft weblog article]] | [[Category:Draft weblog article]] |
Revision as of 16:09, 23 June 2007
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Description
AboutUs is a brand new wiki of websites that anyone can edit. It is currently in Beta.
Wiki size: | unknown size |
Criticism
AboutUs has been criticized for stealing private information from websites. The website has a bot witch takes information from a website and uses it to make an AboutUs Article. Even websites protected by a robots.txt file are still vulnerable due to the fact that the wiki will still encourage AboutUs users to add information about the website to it.
Articles
The wiki has over 2,000,000 articles, most of them about websites, due to the fact that the bot the website owns automatically creates most of them.