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...than this. Surely the Nobel Prize cannot have been decided principally on the basis of what appears here. Gao, 60, a playwright as well as a novelist, is regarded as a master of the Chinese language. Perhaps that skill cannot be completely conveyed in a translation, but a better use of English might have helped...
...that's where the finagling starts. There are two kinds of bots on the Internet. The first functions within a closed system and works only with retailers that sign up for a fee. These include Shop@AOL and Shopping.Yahoo. But most bots use the open system and search the entire Web. Though these bots may have financial relationships with some retailers, they don't exclude others. The lesson here: bots don't always offer you unbiased information...
Though consumers love to use bots to find a deal, wary merchants see them as agents for profit-busting bidding wars. Some sellers at first erected barriers to prevent these price-foraging bots from getting any information. Not a shrewd move, as online customers simply passed those sellers by. Others outsmarted the bots by listing a very low price and then, as the order was made, zapping the shopper with stiff shipping costs...
Among the most popular bots is MySimon, which brings in more than 1 million visitors a month, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. It boasts scanning more than 2,500 merchants for values on millions of products. Though MySimon does highlight some merchants in search results, customers can easily use a sort feature to arrange the list solely by price, a feature many other bots don't offer...
AFTER THE HONEYMOON Researchers at the University of Washington have found that the behavior of newlyweds in the first few years of marriage can be predictive. Frequent use of unifying words such as "us" and "we," significant interaction in the spouses' daily life, and public demonstrations of fondness for the partner are signs of future marital stability. By contrast, couples who describe their lives as chaotic tend to divorce early...