Word: siting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that was once a busy shopping street in this hardscrabble East London suburb. Ford Dagenham produced as many as 340,617 cars annually and employed 40,000 people at its peak in the 1960s. Ford's diesel-engine plant, the only business left on the 475-acre (192 hectare) site, has a workforce of just 4,000; also gone are 60,000 other jobs that depended on the car industry and its employees. It's a depressing tableau, one all too familiar: just like Detroit, this once vibrant center of auto manufacturing seems stuck in a spiral of persistent decline...
That's why Google Health urges users to read each service's privacy policy before signing up. But what about Google's endgame? The site, which commands two-thirds of all Internet searches, already knows a lot about you. Do you really want to share more...
...page or e-mail accounts, Google Health has no ads. Its business model is simple: the more people use Google Health, the more they're likely to punch in health-related queries, which routes them to a regular Google search-results page. That, in turn, drives revenue to the site...
Yale astronomy graduate student Carolin Cardamone, who has published research on green pea galaxies, says astronomers were alerted to their existence by Galaxy Zoo volunteers who posted hundreds of images to the site's busy discussion forum. She says the project is an enormous boon to her field. "This is all hard, rigorous science," she says. "We're not giving [the volunteers] busywork to do. We're not doing this so they can have fun with science, but so they can participate in real science...
...site, Hardwick said, would alleviate much of the frustration that many student groups previously faced...