Finally, big data or the searching of large amounts of data using Hadoop.

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The backup application starts automatically, searching and backing up data without requiring any user interaction.

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Repeatedly searching and retrieving large data sets from thousands of computers would be extremely inefficient.

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One problem is that it is amazingly easy to get false positive results when scanning through complicated data sets and searching in the dark for correlations between genes and disease.

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This happens more often than you might think as researchers searching for clues to disease perform numerous analyses on complicated data sets.

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The AdMob buy and an October launch of Campaign Insights, a data compiling tool that helps marketers track how often consumers are searching for terms and which ads they click, is part of a broader strategy at Google.

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So, as much as possible before the review team launches in, cull down the data set by employing objective criteria, subjective criteria (search methodology) and concept-searching software.

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There was no Gmail, email storage was minimal, searching past emails was a disaster and we were, for the most part, limited to what data was on the hard drive in our home or office.

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So movie companies have been searching online for copies of their own movies, identifying the locations of everyone from whom they received a bit of data.

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