This red-hot Web site search firm handles 170 million page views a day and has become the fourth-most-visited Web site in the world.
On the plus side, the same market forces driving the competition for top new talent are also spurring the search for hot, young entrepreneurs with cool ideas to back.
It has been left behind in hot areas such as search and social networking by younger companies, some of which love to thumb their noses at their older rival.
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The company was based on the then-hot concept of Bayesian search, named after 18th-century mathematician Thomas Bayes, and ultimately developed an all-encompassing software package it called IDOL Intelligent Data Operating Layer.
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Police say further use of mobile phone technology had produced several "hot spots" that specialist search teams are examining.
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Or just search online where a variety of Chinese hot pots are for sale.
If you really need to search for a parking space, sales are hot.
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Mr. Wong says Accel has added more EIRs as it looks for an edge in the search for promising young companies and relationships with hot founders become more valuable.
The pivot is a smart one because mobile location data is one of the hot growth area, with users increasingly using their mobile devices to search for products and services.
All of this suggests that Big Data will not only be a revolution in data management and search, but that it will also likely bring to the fore a whole new generation of hot companies specializing in building and selling new tools for mining vast amounts of low-quality data for the rare nuggets.
While JDate doesn't publicly release its algorithms, at the time of my experiment I observed that the more popular profiles come up higher in search results, allowing one to get a quick-and-dirty ranking of who's hot (or not).
Number One Court can often produce an intense atmosphere but, on a roasting hot day in Paris, the match began with the steep-sided stands half empty as spectators went in search of shade and refreshment after the preceeding men's match.
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