Over the years, a variety of possible solutions to this intractable verification conundrum have been considered and found wanting: on-site inspections, perimeter-portal monitoring, operational constraints, tagging, etc. have all proven inadequate to the task of deterring Soviet cheating and, should the USSR opt to do so, of reliably detecting it.

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His first customer was Sina.com--the popular portal site was struggling to handle the stream of visitors crashing its servers during the Sydney Summer Olympic Games.

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Rather than creating draft rules in a vacuum, the authorities have started with these recommended guidelines and have notably obtained input from major China-based internet portal site providers such as Baidu, Sina, and Tencent.

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The portal's acquisition of the photo-sharing site Flickr was hailed by some as a sign that it could freshen up its business model by tapping into the wave of Web-friendly start-ups that emerged in the wake of the 2001 tech bust.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Malcolm said one such report appeared on the Drudge Report Web site -- a conservative media portal.

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It also has some snazzy new features to make searching easier, and an extra window pane that stays open no matter where you surf to display, for example, e-mail, stock quotes and other information from your favored portal site.

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The firm recently launched an initiative called Project 60, a 60-day-long blitzkrieg to bring free E-mail, search, forums and other basic portal functions to its Netcenter site.

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This web site - located at www.firstgov.gov - provides a single online information portal that connects Americans with information and resources to one of the largest and most useful collection of web pages in the world.

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