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Clearly, search engines needed to be more intuitive, to rank quality over quantity. But how can a computer program understand what we think of as the good stuff? To Page and Brin this was more than an academic puzzler. Multiply the man-hours corporations spend on online research by the increasing chaos of the Web and you have millions of dollars leaking out of the economy. "If we deal with that better," says Page, "we're changing the world...
...Sales rank last week on Amazon.com of Joseph Lieberman's book In Praise of Public Life...
...their act. Similarly, GM has sought to position itself as the greenest car company, beginning in 1996 when it launched the nation's first modern, mass-produced electric car, the EV-1. But both companies, which account for half of the SUVs and other light trucks sold today, rank lower in fuel efficiency than Asian companies such as Toyota and Honda...
...repeated requests for a comment on the apparent leak. But the incident follows reports from the State Department and Congress criticizing Greece for failure to act against 17 November, a Marxist-Leninist group that has operated with impunity since 1975. Some former U.S. officials now allege that past high-ranking members of the country's ruling Socialists have had links with the terrorist group. Since then, the group has killed an additional 22 Greek and foreign nationals, including four American officials. Saunders, 53 and the father of two, was the first British envoy to be slain by the notorious terrorists...
...myth. "Homework usually brings major family interference, there's downloading of book reports from the Internet, there's Daddy doing the science experiment. Who's getting discipline? I think it's the parents." It helps her case that Farley can point to Beacon's students' standardized-test scores, which rank among the best in the state...