But does that pragmatic approach leave Google vulnerable to an innovative start-up willing to risk its fate on building meaning-based search from scratch?
Instead of focusing on real, meaning-based relevancy, they supplement their keyword-based algorithms by counting the number of links that lead to a page and factoring the page's popularity into its placement in search results.
The exciting possibility of meaning-based advantages like these, according to Berkan and Pell, is that semantic algorithms won't just make keywordese obsolete--they could even become smart enough to pull searchers away from big players like Google and Yahoo!
Obama's renewed focus on climate, including his call for "market-based" solutions -- meaning reopening the idea of carbon markets or other such mechanisms, a couple of years after such ideas were considered by many to be dead -- was a return to promises made long ago.
Boomi is SaaS-based, meaning that its customers are billed based on actual usage rather than on periodic licensing fees.
Nearly all Antarctic tourism is sea-based, meaning that your transportation, meals and accommodation are combined in one neat package (your ship), so that no infrastructure has to be built ashore in Antarctica's delicate environment.
The problem with the current state of deletion of this type of content is that most of it is time-based deletion, meaning that companies delete email after a certain amount of time.
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But today's news is especially auspicious, because the South San Francisco-based firm is developing Avastin entirely by itself--meaning the company wouldn't have to share sales or profits for the drug.
Since his return, Mr Mack has remarked that broad-based financial firms seem to do particularly well meaning, presumably, firms with the balance-sheet strength needed for lending as well as the knowledge needed for underwriting.
Most country funds, like other index funds, are market-weighted, meaning their exposure to different stocks is based on the total value of the stocks' shares outstanding in comparison with the market capitalization of other shares in that market.
It could also be used with a camera-based position detection system as shown above, meaning your finger's location and force could be calculated on a non-active surface like an ordinary table.
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The company's inventory spiked to 170-plus days from approximately 100 days last year, meaning it would take Garmin 170-plus days to sell its inventory based on the pace which Garmin sold products in the first quarter.
Today, small businesses can see their premiums skyrocket if just one or two workers fall ill and accumulate high medical costs -- reform will prevent insurance discrimination based on health status, meaning that small businesses will no longer be unfairly penalized if a worker falls ill.
The best part is, applying different levels of OAM twist to SAM-based transmissions theoretically allows an infinite number of streams per signal, meaning seriously increased bandwidth without the need for additional frequency.
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Is that still conditions-based and dependent on the recommendations from the commanders on the ground, meaning it could be very, very slow after July 2011, or it could be rapid?
The six states with the highest current per-gallon charges--California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, Michigan and Indiana--all levy taxes based on a percentage of the price of gasoline, meaning when the cost of gas goes up, the state's tax take per gallon goes up too.
Movea's unique motion processing capabilities enable customers and partners to quickly add motion intelligence to their products, meaning reduced risk, cost, and Time-to-Market for delivering compelling new motion-based features that create more end-user value.
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Third, the United States is one of the few remaining countries (PDF) that has a "worldwide" tax system, meaning that we apply the 35% top rate to the worldwide profits of U.S-based companies: that is, on the profits made by foreign subsidiaries as well.
Now elderly and pondering the meaning of his existence, he supervises the enactment of his memories through a series of lively vignettes based on well-known duets and arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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