Word: distinguisher
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...want to write a term paper, settle a bar bet or snoop into the past of that cute guy at the office, the best place to start has long been Google, the world's coolest search engine. But online shopping? Fuhgeddaboutit. Google had no way to distinguish websites that sold, say, CD players from those that simply wrote about them. Enter Froogle (at froogle.com) a Google offshoot devoted to shopping searches. Froogle weds the technologies that made Google great (ranking websites in order of usefulness, loading in a split second) with continually updated information from thousands of Web merchants...
Throughout the '90s, data mining spread from one industry to the next, enabling companies to know more about customers' needs and to zero in on the characteristics that distinguish the customers they want from those they do not. A credit-card company using a system designed by Teradata, a division of NCR, found that customers who fill out applications in pencil rather than pen are more likely to default. A major hotel chain discovered that guests who opted for X-rated flicks spent more money and were less likely to make demands on the hotel staff, according to privacy consultant...
...liberals—otherwise there can never be any organized opposition to the party that so readily calls itself conservative. A posse of freelance, unidentified left-wingers can’t stand up to the incumbents unless they band together using their own clumsy, imprecise political labels to distinguish themselves. If liberals are going to use a label, why not use the clear, time-honored one that is still totally fitting for this sadly dwindling group...
...Lurie and his running mate, Alexander S. Misono ’04, say the issue of non-discrimination is just one of many that distinguish them from the crowded field of candidates vying for leadership of the council...
...horned helmets and leather slippers. Entertainment includes a rowdy candlelit dinner with a floor show based on Nordic mythology. Owner Richard Edward Schmidthuber, who got the idea after people cheered the Viking costume he wore to a football game, says he intentionally made the place "a little different" to distinguish it from the thousands of bed-and-breakfast inns. For those who insist on a 21st century association with the word Vikings, he's also created a football-theme room complete with AstroTurf, lockers from the Minnesota team's practice facilities and a urinal emblazoned with arch-rivals Green...