The Rank Organisation the Rank Group acquired all the outstanding shares of the Rank Organisation. In spring 1997, Rank sold Rank Film Distributors, including its library of 749 films, to Carlton Television for £65 million and immediately became known as Carlton/RFD Ltd. Pinewood Studios and Odeon Cinemas were both sold off in 2000. The company finally severed its remainings connection with the film industry in 2005 when it sold its DVD distribution business and Deluxe technical support unit. A = The Archers<br> BB Betty E. Box–Ralph Thomas Productions<br> C = Cineguild Productions<br> GB = Gainsborough Pictures<br> H = Hammer Studios<br> I = Individual
Learning to rank search engine exclusively relies on machine-learned ranking. Cuil's CEO, Tom Costello, suggests that they prefer hand-built models because they can outperform machine-learned models when measured against metrics like click-through rate or time on landing page, which is because machine-learned models "learn what people say they like, not what people actually like". In January 2017 the technology was included in the open source search engine Apache Solr™, thus making machine learned search rank widely accessible also for enterprise search. Learning to rank Learning to rank or machine-learned ranking (MLR) is the application of machine learning, typically supervised, semi-supervised or reinforcement learning,