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Partially it seems they're jumping on the Web 2.0 crowdsourcing long tail here-comes-everybody bandwagon; partially because by focusing specifically on 'collective intelligence' they're actually narrower than data mining per se. But primarily I think the former, to give the book wide appeal (and lots of sales!).



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