To join up data points into a context, common identities are required (for example, a web page view can be given a geographical location by joining up the IP address of the page request with that from the IP address in an IP intelligence database).

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Every photo and video we upload, everything we browse and purchase online, every web page we view, our online banking and credit card transactions, every connection we make on Facebook or LinkedIn are all pieces of data we are generating.

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They scale down and simplify Web information so that one can, for instance, view the CNNhome page.

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Hence our trust of Google, which ranks a web page by how many other pages are linked to it, and how many other searchers view the page in question.

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Ackman may have put together a 300-page presentation outlining his thesis against Herbalife and set up a web site to promote his view, but Ackman does not have the kind of street cred that Loeb currently has on Wall Street.

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The technology works with any web page, and enables users to browse to a page with long content, click the plugin button, and instantly view the summarized text as an overlay on the page.

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