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vash_stampy

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    Comment #2817361

    I think a more generalized solution will still work with this problem. When there's no center (ie beach extends infinitely), the hot dog vendors would choose to be close together f…

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    Comment #2793638

    To me, the stance that this professor is taking is absurd. He's not helping anyone but himself giving up on efforts to prevent cheating. I really thought he would have made a compe…

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    Comment #2750923

    If your biggest incentive you offer is to disrupt the business another product, you must not have a very good product.

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    Comment #2181382

    Sigh....Two things: 1) Performing this sting and it working or failing wouldn't prove if they did it in the past...The cat's out of the bag. Bing or Google could have easily change…

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    Comment #2181184

    Inadvertently like the Bing toolbar. It has been shown to log every pageview like Bing toolbar. Whether they filter out the pageviews when a user goes to Bing no one knows besides …

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    Comment #2181069

    From the article: "Meanwhile, I’m on my third day of waiting to hear back from Google about just what exactly it does with its own toolbar. Now that the company has fired off accus…

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    Comment #2181039

    Round and round the speculation wheel goes! Where it stops, no one knows!

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    Comment #2175667

    I like your stock market insider information analogy because it illustrates the flaw in Google's experiment very well. And very few people seem to realize it. I need to modify it s…

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    Comment #2172292

    Incorrect, once again to come to that conclusion you would need to test on a site that WASN'T Google as well.

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    Comment #2172220

    Read google's "Bing Sting" experiment on Google's blog. Their test had no control variable (ie: running the same test on another website that wasn't Google). If they had done their…