More important than checking myself out in a shopfront window is checking out my search engine results.
During the class, we walked through my Desire Engine framework, a four-step cycle that creates preferences and usage habits.
To my relief, the engine hummed back to life when I restarted it.
In my case, I've installed a search engine called Google Desktop that lets me quickly scour my hard drive for files, and a product by Xobni Corp. that does something similar for Outlook email, even though neither is approved by my IT department.
"And I looked back and forth a couple of times and my eyes went to the engine block and there was a body, " he told the station.
My experiments revealed a recommendation engine that seemed fearful of leaving home, as some of the related tracks I encountered were ones already in my Favorites collection.
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The check engine light of my 2003 Mazda MPV turned on over 6-months ago, and I never had the time to actually get it checked, even less fixed!
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The charitable billionaire, who is unnamed lest you think this is another one of my obvious attempts at search engine optimization like this post, which has a largely irrelevant picture of Jennifer Aniston not being naked, said that he was being taxed at 17% of his taxable income, which is largely capital gains.
"I'd only been sitting in my BMW for 30 seconds with the engine running, so when the door was opened by a man in camouflage, I knew what was happening and stayed fairly cool, " he said.
"Though I didn't end up becoming an engineer, knowing how to design an engine is interesting to know for my job today, " he suggests.
On the web I generally agree with this: if I am looking for information, I want to apply my own filters, not have a search engine do that invisibly for commercial purposes.
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Again, my argument is that capitalism is just an economic engine.
My view is Google was not a better search engine but the guys talked a much superior story about relevance, at a point in the search narrative when it really, really mattered to show relevance.
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Just as a race car driver might discuss the fine points of his engine, I had the hero in my novel "The Soloist" dissect the piano's inner workings in relation to a given piece of music: pedal action, tuning, hammers and bridge.
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This is a welcome change from my Lexus hybrid, which shudders slightly when the gasoline engine kicks on.
That Skimlinks could well be a monetization engine behind new social platforms is, for my money, the real news.
Many Volt owners will hardly ever use the gas engine, and it rarely kicked in during my four days with the car this month.
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Personally, I have my eye on an even smaller jet, the rumored single-engine, four-seat pocket-rocket from Cirrus Design. (If the one engine fails, pull a lever and a parachute will float you and the plane to a soft landing.) One of the two brothers who founded Cirrus told me the Cirrus jet would go 300 knots, or 345 miles per hour.
He tossed my bag onto the ground, slammed the door, and started the engine.
The constant vibration and roaring of the engine had left me numb and had worn the paint off my helmet where it rested against the inside wall.
Google, for example, was judged by my Chinese observers to have originated by building upon the prior search-engine innovations of others, but then, as the arrow indicates, has subsequently grown through mastering the ability to both create and capture its own value.
She grabbed my arm and pulled on it like it was the starter rope on a lawnmower engine.
Along with the spots there will be 11 celebrity endorsements by the likes of Enrique Iglesias and Shaggy, two documentaries about climate change and an eco-friendly episode of Pimp My Ride in which a '65 Chevy Impala gets an 800-horsepower diesel engine that runs on biodiesel.
So some people might be surprised at my latest venture: retrofitting the plug-in hybrid Fisker Karma with a powerful internal combustion engine.
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"We'd go out for a run and talk business issues and I'd lose my breath trying to answer, " says Matt Nichols, Pandora's director of search engine marketing.
My test X3 xDrive35i was equipped with a 3.0-liter inline 6-cylinder engine with twin turbochargers, tuned to produce the magic numbers of 300 hp and 300 lb-ft of torque.
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When Facebook analyzes my profile and notices that I have participated in a dozen different religions over the past 30 years, their engine should make the assumption that I am interested in theology and various disciplines of spirituality.
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Soon after my 1991 arrival in Hong Kong, it became clear to me that China was, in fact, the growth engine that was driving the entire Asian region.
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