Usually, you explore data in one system, analyze it in another, search for more related information in another, and then take action in still another.

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The project is part of a European-funded initiative, known as Smart ("search engine for multimedia environment-generated content"), which aims to create a system for internet users to search and analyse data from sensors.

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And for Google, the most data-driven company in the world, having newspapers articles in its search system is no more than small cool stuff.

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And it says BT failed to license a system used to let computer servers prioritise data - an IBM invention now owned by the search firm.

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