After a half-century,the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has pretty much come up empty.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Google has been dogged by claims that it facilitates the piracy of content through its search results pretty much since day one.

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"Search is pretty amazing at finding that one needle in a haystack of billions of webpages, images, videos, news and much more, " said Amit Singhal in the firm's official blog.

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Its officers began to search people, pretty much at random and often with little cause, on the streets, in housing estates and in apartment blocks.

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