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by lidHanteyk 2484 days ago
Didn't this happen before with some group called "Klout" or some such? I don't remember what happened to them.
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the_watcher 2484 days ago
Purchased by Lithium Technologies in 2014, shuttered in 2018. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klout

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freehunter 2484 days ago
They were bought for their machine learning algorithms and the purchaser ditched the rating service because they recognized it was a bad idea.
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