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whitepaper A Large-Scale Study of Web Password Habits2007-05-12 International World Wide Web Conference Committee
  This paper reports the results of a large scale study of password use and password re-This paper reports the results of a large scale study of password use and password re-use habits. The study involved half a million users over a three month period. A client component on users' machines recorded a variety of password strength, usage and frequency metrics. This allows measuring or estimating such quantities as the average number of pass-words and average number of accounts each user has, how many passwords she types per day, how often passwords are shared among sites, and how often they are forgotten. The authors got extremely detailed data on password strength, the types and lengths of passwords chosen, and how they vary by site.habits. The study involved half a million users over a three month period. A client component on users' machines recorded a variety of password strength, usage and frequency metrics. This allows measuring or estimating such quantities as the average number of pass-words and average number of accounts each user has, how many passwords she types per day, how often passwords are shared among sites, and how often they are forgotten. The authors get extremely detailed data on password strength, the types and lengths of passwords chosen, and how they vary by site.

Tags: Security Management		   
whitepaper The Influence of Caption Features on Clickthrough Patterns in Web Search2007-05-07 Association for Computing Machinery
  Web search engines present lists of captions, comprising title, snippet, and URL, to help users decide which search results to visit. Understanding the influence of features of these captions on Web search behavior may help validate algorithms and guidelines for their improved generation. In this paper the authors develop a methodology to use clickthrough logs from a commercial search engine to study user behavior when interacting with search result captions. The findings of the study suggest that relatively simple caption features such as the presence of all terms query terms, the readability of the snippet, and the length of the URL shown in the caption, can significantly influence users' Web search behavior.

Tags: Software Engineering		   
whitepaper Chinwag Live: PPC Earthquake - 27th March 20072007-03-27 Chinwag
  Google still leads the search world. But two spanners are flying towards its works: Yahoo's new "Panama" platform and Microsoft's AdCenter. The third Chinwag Live event debated how UK advertisers and pay per click marketers can navigate and benefit from the coming battle around the search market with panellists from Microsoft, Latitude, Neutralize (*/*) and Blue Barracuda.   
whitepaper Search Engine Optimization and Web Content Management: A Very Powerful Force2007-03-12 OmniUpdate
  One of the most effective marketing tactics in today's online world is Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This process allows one's website to be placed at the top of search engines like Google and Yahoo! when a search is conducted for a particular phrase. SEO is so effective for two major reasons. First, 213 million searches are conducted a day, according to SearchEngineWatch.com. That's double the number of people who watch the Super Bowl, and successfully optimizing a website costs significantly less than a thirty-second ad during that football game. Second, when one of these 213 million people performs a search for a particular product, he or she becomes a much targeted customer.

Tags: Search Strategies		   
whitepaper Datasheet: Coveo Enterprise Search 4.0 for Microsoft Environments0000-00-00 Coveo Solutions
  Here's a quick read that highlights the features and benefits of Coveo Enterprise Search (CES), a powerful, flexible search solution that's optimized for Microsoft environments. Download the paper for the "quick and dirty" on CES's impressive capabilities in each of these key areas:
  • Search
  • Results
  • Indexing
  • Security
  • Tuning & Optimization
  • System Management & Reporting
  • Integration & Customization
The paper also outlines system requirements for the solution, so you'll know at a glance whether you're ready to take advantage of the real-time reports and comprehensive analysis offered by Coveo Enterprise Search.

Tags: Intranet, Search Strategies, Document Management, Data Quality, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Datasheet: Coveo Enterprise Search for SharePoint 4.00000-00-00 Coveo Solutions
  Coveo Enterprise Search for SharePoint (CESS) delivers lightning-fast search functionality for content stored both within and without your SharePoint environment. Check out this short but informative data sheet to read about CESS's powerful features, including its:
  • Advanced search capabilities
  • Accurate, de-duplicated results
  • State-of-the-art indexing functions
  • Out-of-the-box security
  • Optimization capabilities
  • System management & reporting features
  • Integration & customization abilities


Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Database Management, OS Interoperability, High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Find Anything With Vista's Windows Desktop Search2007-03-01 JupiterMedia
  Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0, introduced with Windows Vista, gives the computer fast search capabilities, helping to find the documents, e-mail, music, photos, videos, and other items quickly. Microsoft implemented the search engine that powers WDS 3.0 as a Windows service that's shared by applications such as Outlook 2007 and OneNote 2007 to index application content and deliver instant results. Because WDS performs file indexing operations only during the computer's idle time, there's no negative impact on the user experience. But the nicest feature for developers is that, in addition to out-of-the-box integration with Office 2007 applications, WDS 3.0 exposes a programmatic API through which one can fully and easily integrate the applications with WDS.

Tags: Windows Vista, Application Development		   
whitepaper Optimal Bidding Strategy for Keyword Auctions and Other Continuous-Time Markets2007-02-16 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  This paper models continuous-time mass bidding markets, such as key-word auctions and market-based resource allocation systems, as a stochastic dynamic system that fluctuates around an average value under the influence of its users. The user's objective to maximize his long-term average utility is formulated as a stochastic control problem. The optimal bidding strategy is calculated both analytically and numerically. It is shown that market fluctuations tend to decrease expected system revenue, thus search engines like Google and Yahoo have an incentive to create a secondary stable market such as a futures market or a reservation market.

Tags: Business Strategies		   
whitepaper Searching Documents Based on Relevance and Type2007-02-09 Microsoft
  This paper extends previous work on document retrieval and document type classification, addressing the problem of 'Typed search'. Specifically, given a query and a designated document type, the search system retrieves and ranks documents not only based on the relevance to the query, but also based on the likelihood of being the designated document type. The paper formalizes the problem in a general framework consisting of 'Relevance model' and 'Type model'. The relevance model indicates whether or not a document is relevant to a query. The type model indicates whether or not a document belongs to the designated document type.   
whitepaper Ranking and Suggesting Tags in Collaborative Tagging Applications2007-02-01 Microsoft
  This paper considers collaborative tagging systems where users can attach tags to information objects. Such systems are widely used to add keywords meta-data to photos, videos, or web pages (social bookmarking applications). The meta-data is then used by information retrieval mechanism to provide accurate query answers. To that end, the goal of collaborative tagging systems is to quickly discover the true ranking of a tag for an information object with respect to a given ranking criteria. This paper also considers the popularity rank as ranking criteria. Many collaborative tagging systems help users tagging of an object by making suggestions based on the tagging history of an information object.

Tags: Search Strategies		   


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