ZipCar. Let’s Make a List

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Rental car giant Avis is acquiring Cambridge-based ZipCar for $491 million. What will this mean for ZipCar and its devotees?

Search engines are good at finding a specific piece of information, but what if you wanted a list of related things instead? Our guests invented an algorithm that will builds lists of nearly anything from events in Boston to smartphone apps to quitessential Jewish foods.Rental car giant Avis is acquiring Cambridge-based ZipCar for $491 million. What will this mean for ZipCar and its devotees?

Search engines are good at finding a specific piece of information, but what if you wanted a list of related things instead? Our guests invented an algorithm that will builds lists of nearly anything from events in Boston to smartphone apps to quitessential Jewish foods.

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