The following U.S. patents were awarded on December 18th-January 1st 2008.
Amazon.com

++ Personalized selection and display of user-supplied content to enhance browsing of electronic catalogs

Microsoft

++ Wish list

++ Methods, apparatus and data structures for facilitating a natural language interface to stored information #

Google

+ Method, system, and graphical user interface for dynamically updating transmission characteristics in a web mail reply

+ Dynamic data delivery apparatus and method for same
See Also:
+ 7,313,360
+ 7,313,359

+ Methods and systems for generating textual information

+ + Anchor tag indexing in a web crawler system

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