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COLIN STEWART, Aug 8, 2006, ocregister

To Google or not to Google � that is not really a question any more.

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But what happens if you're not quite sure what you're seeking?

Then you might want to turn to computer scientist David Newman and his colleagues at UC Irvine, who have helped develop software that searches huge expanses of text without being told what to find.

This form of "text mining" uses a technique, called statistical topic modeling, that is likely to have implications far beyond Internet searches. It can be used by marketers who want to study cultural trends, historians exploring the roots of modern society, doctors confronted with mountains of medical research, and intelligence agents analyzing masses of e-mail traffic among possible terrorists.

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