Evonka is listening to music from an online music provider (such as Pandora or Jango). She builds a list of music preferences, including favorite songs. The music service then suggests additional songs she might enjoy. The music provider is an example of a cloud-computing application that uses a technology for collaborative filtering, which helps define the list of songs available to listeners. Which term describes this technology?
A) Bit-torrent r
B) Crowdsourcing
C) Grid computing
D) Software as a Service

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Collaborative filtering is a technique often associated with crowdsourcing, where the preferences of many users are used to recommend items to others with similar tastes.

Evonka Is Listening to Music from an Online Music Provider