Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over three dozen newly rated websites listed on Consumer Reports Online at CONSUMERREPORTS.ORG, only Amazon.com wins top honors for "a very satisfying shopping experience." Rated by the five-point system used in the print magazine, the site evaluates e-merchants based on content, usability and policies. Lillian Vernon's catalog site is labeled "inconvenient" and "tedious," while the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut site gets dinged for its "poorly cross-referenced search engine." Just so-so sites include Victoria's Secret, Frederick's of Hollywood, Brookstone and The Sharper Image.The detailed ratings are available to members who pay $24 a year...
Last-minute modifications to the system "had the unintended effect of dramatically slowing response times on the online catalog to an unacceptable level," according to a UCLA library web site...
When the listings appear in a catalog or on a website--or both--you can contact the folks with whom you would like to exchange by mail, e-mail, telephone or fax or, through some online services, anonymously. Some services allow only members to browse their listings; others make them available to all viewers. From that point on, you make your own arrangements with each family...
...completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 changed everything. The project itself provided scientists with a catalog of every human gene. But over the following decade, pharmaceutical companies put this catalog to use in studies of very large numbers of people. Among the many important findings of these studies was the discovery that for nearly every disease, there were at least a small number of people who carried specific and powerful "protecting" genes. By 2020, the list of such "natural protection" genes had expanded dramatically to cover all major infectious and noninfectious diseases...
...Baldwin showed but left his dog at home. Apparently Baldwin isn't quite sold on e-commerce: "New York is so convenient - you can call your local pet store and get the bone, get the collar, get the food." What about ordering from Pets.com? "I haven't seen their catalog yet." Give that URL a whirl, Billy. MORE...