Many dread the effect on their margins of greater price transparency and the web equivalent of shopping around.
Although it operates data centres of its own, it outsources much of its computing to Amazon Web Services, the cloud-computing arm of the online shopping giant.
You (hopefully) already know the king of web retail is mining data based on your shopping habits, location, music taste, and other fairly obvious lifestyle indicators.
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Amazon and Google offer simple versions of Web services, tying into disparate databases to streamline shopping and bulk-information sorting.
Television is at the heart of an intricate web of new technologies, which govern everything we do from shopping and dating, to computer games and voting.
Life experts popping up everywhere from group-speaking engagements to The Oprah Winfrey Show are extolling the dangers of overdoing activities from shopping and watching television to surfing the Web, drinking coffee and even daydreaming.
So named for customers that choose to skip the store rush during Thanksgiving weekend in favor of shopping Monday online, Cyber Monday is generally targeted for web specials by chains looking to draw traffic and sales to their sites.
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After Thursday's announcement, those links will eventually appear above the main search results page with larger images of relevant products, suggesting the shopping site could see a bump in Web traffic.
Future versions will include tools that let people use popular Chinese web services such as Baidu maps, the Taobao shopping service as well as versions of office programs and image management tools, directly from Ubuntu's main screen.
You want fast analysis of huge data sets that change rapidly or have a short life, such as a Web shopping cart?
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Yet BountyQuest could not debunk one of the best-known (and most criticised) patents on the web: Amazon's one-click shopping.
Technologies like Splunk were built to help IT staff search and summarize machine data, but with just a small amount of enhancement web server log data can track in real time the flow of customers through pages, the products that are going into shopping carts, and the rate of transactions.
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