Indeed, Google has even launched a new search product called Search Plus Your World (SPYW), perhaps the company's most " radical" move in its history, which determines search results according to social rather than algorithmic criteria.

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And after they pass, their "probation period", during which six - rather than the usual 12 - penalty points results in disqualification, could be extended.

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According to a recent paper by Francis and Vavrus in Geophysical Research Letters, the preferential warming of the Arctic, with a concomitant decline in late-summer sea ice, results in a more meandering jet stream, which is why Sandy shifted westward, rather than being shoved out to sea by the normally strong westerlies associated with the jet.

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