1.   As a leader in the online marketplace, selling everything from books to washing machines, Amazon.com also has become known for its skills in mining customer data.

2.   By mining that data with high-powered computers, they can sort out which families truly pay the freight.

3.   He still mines data from computers at American Century Investments.

4.   Local telephone companies mine data from call records.

5.   Some firms also spend millions of dollars on elaborate software packages that can mine data from resumes and even quiz potential candidates.

6.   The research teams in both reports mined earthquake data to tunnel deeper than ever before into the mysteries of the inner Earth.