That allowed psychologists to build a computer program that could start trawling through public posts and predict what sort of person someone is like in real life.
Hedge funds and other asset managers that trawl the market looking to profit from abnormal pricing also won big.
The program currently trawls 17 Web sites, including those of The Washington Post, Reuters and the BBC, gathering articles and sorting them by topic.
It has been suggested that trawling activities "farm the sea".
In areas with low natural disturbance, the biogeochemical impacts of trawling may be profound given that trawling kills macrobenthos and mixes sediments.
Overall, the researchers concluded that trawling had no effect on worm populations.
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The present modelling study, though speculative, suggests that trawling in the benthos could enhance microbial carbon mineralisation pathways at the expense of metazoan faunal biomass and intense trawling could create considerable instability in benthic function.
Our preliminary assessment of the effects of trawling disturbance on carbon mineralisation and chemical concentrations in a soft sediment system implies that trawling can have profound effects on functional processes in benthic systems.
