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Microsummaries are regularly-updated short summaries of web pages. They are compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, they provide more useful information about pages than static page titles, and they get regularly updated as new information becomes available. | Microsummaries are regularly-updated short summaries of web pages. They are compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, they provide more useful information about pages than static page titles, and they get regularly updated as new information becomes available. | ||
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A microsummary can be provided by a page itself (similar to the way pages provide RSS feeds of their contents) or by a microsummary generator, a type of Firefox add-on that contains instructions for extracting information from the contents of the page. | A microsummary can be provided by a page itself (similar to the way pages provide RSS feeds of their contents) or by a microsummary generator, a type of Firefox add-on that contains instructions for extracting information from the contents of the page. | ||
== Using Microsummaries == | == Using Microsummaries == | ||