That allows an e-commerce firm to monitor and modify campaigns as they are running, tuning them for the best results, checking the results and making more changes.

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While checking the results from the preliminary test, officials realized that their official dictionary listed alternative spellings for two of the words.

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Constantly checking your inbox results in attention fragmentation.

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More important than checking myself out in a shopfront window is checking out my search engine results.

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Watson has already been put to work in health care, analyzing thousands of pages of the latest medical research, checking patient conditions, suggesting diagnoses and treatments to physicians and recording results.

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The results also indicate that small banks are much more likely to offer free checking.

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Facebook also employs linguists that are constantly checking what users are searching for, and making sure Graph Search can account for those results.

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