Scenario 7-1
Scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2011, Nintendo's portable 3DS gaming system will likely revolutionize the video game industry. The 3DS is the newest in a long line of portable gaming systems made by Nintendo, but will now boast a number of new features-including 3-dimensional technology that does not require the use of any special viewing goggles or glasses. The new system will also allow consumers to play classic games from older generations of Nintendo products, watch 3-D movies, and create fictional "Mii" characters that were made famous by Nintendo's Wii. Nintendo hopes its new gaming system will once again put Nintendo at the top of the video game industry, having lost some of its market share to Sony and Microsoft in recent years.
-(Scenario 7-1) In order to gather secondary research to support the company's own primary research, Nintendo visited a number of social media sites hoping to find online communities with knowledge of the video game industry. This intense Internet searching is referred to as

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Web mining refers to the process of extracting information from web pages and other online sources in order to gather relevant data for analysis. In this case, Nintendo is using web mining to gather secondary research from social media sites about the video game industry.

Scenario 7-1 Scheduled to Be Released in the First Quarter of 2011