When it clicks, when it comes together, the feeling is so satisfying, so good.
"When all of a sudden it clicks, it's a nice feeling, " he said.
If it clicks with this notoriously tough to impress crowd, sure, a short-covering rally could push the stock price higher.
But a lot of them come back and reengage because they read something or run into someone they know who uses it, and it clicks.
On July 30, Limited Run, which provides software to enable bands and music labels sell physical products like records, said it was closing its Facebook account after finding that some 80% of the clicks it got during a recent ad campaign on Facebook were likely generated not by real people but by bots.
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He places his briefcase carefully on the table, unlocks it with a pair of decisive clicks, and opens it up.
At Amazon.com, it takes eight clicks--along with entering an e-mail address, password, physical address and credit card number--to buy the latest Modest Mouse CD.
Google responded by threatening to remove all French news sites from its index, which would presumably eliminate the 4 billion clicks it sends to those sites every year.
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At Amazon.com (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ), it takes eight clicks--along with entering an e-mail address, password, physical address and credit card number--to buy the latest Modest Mouse CD.
Stadium owners would welcome the technology as well, as it would help them get more use out of the field: A few mouse clicks is all it takes to change the field from a gridiron to a soccer pitch.
He added that since Chameleon mimics human clicks, it is tricky for advertisers to easily spot the botnet.
It said it redirected four billion clicks to French media pages each month.
Today -- as websites have multiplied exponentially -- that ratio is a fraction of what it was, while clicks-per-thousand ad rates have been slashed.
In fact, it takes just 19 clicks to jump from one web page to any of the 14 billion-plus pages on the web.
But with a couple of quick clicks, it becomes clear the Twitter crowd is scratching the surface, while the Reddit crowd is actually digging in.
The retro-look is over for brands that are stuck in counting clicks and calling it a day.
Perhaps, Limited Run has suggested, rivals could be using the bots to cost the company money by forcing it to pay for useless clicks.
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It takes just a few quick clicks to send multiple boxes of gadgets, gifts or groceries rushing homeward.
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In four clicks on an iPad it's possible to change the screen from a view of a world map to a graph of toothpaste prices in India and a sales comparison that shows local brands are gaining share.
Limited Run said it came to the conclusion that the clicks were fraudulent after running its own analysis.
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Baynote is also different from other recommendation approaches in the way that it examines the words associated with the clicks the user makes.
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These days it is only the masochistic American who ever clicks on his online portfolio.
It also showed that 10% of TechCrunch clicks came from the Tweet button.
Mr. Miller said it hasn't been as effective in generating clicks or in pushing up restaurant sales.
Until the machine actually shuts down, the dialog box continues to respond to clicks, which makes you think that it's ignoring you.
Fire up a browser, go to eBay to list a new item and it can take as many as 64 decisions, 77 clicks, and 30 to 60 minutes to get the job done.
After a few clicks you can go inside the watch and see how it works.
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