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...answer depends on what type of "other" search engine a user might gravitate to. There are meta-search properties that combine the search results from other engines - sites like Dogpile.com, MyWebSearch.com and Mamma.com. While the users of these kinds of sites skew female, the typical profile for meta-search engines is a less technically sophisticated user who tends to be 55 or older. Initially meta-search was a favorite of the tech-savvy user - in the early years of search, it wasn't uncommon to find drastically different results on the major sites, and meta-search engines served a very...
...city, befuddling bureaucrats and toying with the populace’s deepest yearnings for consumer goods. Meanwhile, a character known only as the Master, condemned to live in a mental institution after writing a historical account of Jesus’s crucifixion—a book that becomes a meta-novel within the text—breaks out to serve as the hero. He yearns for the love of his former muse and mistress, Margarita. She, in turn, makes a Faustian deal with Satan to reunite with her long lost love. What ensues is absurd, intricate, and absolute unforgettable...
...statement criticizing Nissen's research methods. "GSK strongly disagrees with the conclusions reached in the NEJM article, which are based on incomplete evidence and a methodology that the author admits has significant limitations," read the statement. Mary Anne Rhyne, a GSK spokesperson, notes that Nissen's study was a meta-analysis - a study of other studies - rather than direct observation of patients. "We place more weight on observational studies," Rhyne says...
...issue of the cardiovascular risk of Avandia and similar drugs with an advisory committee "as soon as one can be convened." Earlier data about Avandia prompted the FDA to strengthen the drug's warning label last year. The FDA also disclosed that GSK recently provided its own meta-analysis of Avandia patients, which found a 30% to 40% greater risk of heart attack than patients in a control group. "These data, if confirmed, would be of significant concern," the FDA statement read...
This is the new world of fairy tales: parodied, ironized, meta-fictionalized, politically adjusted and pop-culture saturated. (Yes, the original stories are still out there, but they don't have the same marketing force behind them: the Happy Meals, action figures, books, games and other ancillary-revenue projects.) All of which appeals to the grownups who chaperone the movie trips and endure the repeated DVD viewings. Old-school fairy tales, after all, are boring to us, not the kids. The Shrek movies have a nigh-scientific formula for the ratio of fart jokes to ask-your-mother jokes; Shrek...