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Northern Light Technology Makes Deal WIth C.I.A.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the focusing-on-revenues dept.

Llywelyn writes: "The C.I.A. has evidently written up a contract with the group Northern Light Technology to develop a search engine that can sort through the C.I.A's increasing mound of unprocessed data. Unfortunately, one of the consequences of this is that Northern Light's public search engine is fated for destruction later this month. " It's inevitable, IMHO, that some of this happen - the search engine world is overpopulated right now, and with the economic downturn, more and more companies will move to where they can survive.

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  1. Cult of inteligence by PyroMosh · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Has anyone ever read the book CIA and the cult of intelligence ?

    Anyone notice the blank line at the top of this article?

    What's going on here? I smell a censor!

    The cia has [deleted] civil liberties

    [deleted] Former Director [delted]

    without any thought

    [deleted]

    won't stand for this!

    (please don't mod this down if you haven't read the book)

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    Touch everywhere, even when inappropriate.
  2. Re:Top Ten by Alien54 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    A comprehensive, yet highly targeted, crawl of Web sites identified by classification experts will be used to create a database of all the relevant information while excluding sites deemed to be of little value to an organization's goals.

    Probably the biggest online version of "Where is Waldo?" known to man

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    "It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
  3. Re:IMHO - ESL by bdktty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IMHO originally meant "In My Humble Opinion"
    The lack of Humble Opinions on the internet has changed the use . . .