For years,the Central Intelligence Agency stood at the forefront of U.S.efforts to extract information from terror suspects in the post-9/11 era.

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The tight coupling of presentation and information has made it difficult to extract the underlying information and adapt to changing internal and external needs.

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Also, excessive "screen scraping, " where computers ping an airline website repeatedly to extract information, strains the airline's website, American said.

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Metatags will make it easier to extract information from a page to suit a particular use, or the limitations of a particular device.

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