U.S. officials said the CIA will conduct a technical and textual analysis of the new videotape and may have more to say Friday.

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To identify the most interesting goods on the site, the researchers on the Discover project wrote an algorithm that measures factors including how much people interact with a listing (clicking on it, returning to it, forwarding it to friends), seller history (the seller is known to offer interesting things) and textual analysis (a longer seller's description of the product indicates more passion about the item).

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Still, textual analysis "is better than a plain guess, because it has some statistical underpinning to it, " says Mr. Peterson.

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The process was hijacked by a small but highly motivated group of fundamentalists more interested in factional organisation, textual analysis and strict orthodoxy than in the real world and how people live their lives.

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