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On the web, it seems as if suddenly everyone is ranking and reviewing products in the hopes that you will buy something and they will get a small payoff. Here, why that’s happening, explains John Herrman.

Only 28% of dealership representatives showed appreciation for the customer's interest in their vehicles or services. This is a missed opportunity.

In connection with cambridge analytica. this is this group that worked with the trump campaign. what about the story, where its going? obviously it had facebook today, guy, and the stock dropped significantly. the implications today? >> i think it is not unusual or necessarily newsworthy that a campaign or some appendage of a campaign was using a lot of data to micro-target people. that has been going on for a very long time. online data, shopping data, that a sort of standard at this point in o...

Its making sure folks can find the plan thats right for them and to make sure they have the subsidy calculations to get there. thats a known good and theyre going to work through these issues as they uncover them. >> heres a question from one of our twitter followers. why didnt they build a website where you could just window shop, get estimates without having to give so much personal information? >> so, actually, this questions come up quite a bit. and it isnt entirely correct, the assumption t...