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whitepaper EnjoyPhoto - A Vertical Image Search Engine for Enjoying High-Quality Photos2006-10-27 Association for Computing Machinery
  This paper proposes building a vertical image search engine called EnjoyPhoto that leverages rich metadata from various photo forum web sites to meet users' requirements for enjoying high-quality photos, which is virtually impossible in traditional image search engines. To solve the ranking problem when aggregating multiple photo forums, the paper proposes a novel rank fusion algorithm that uses duplicate photos to normalize rating scores. To further improve user experiences in enjoying photos, it designs an in-place image browsing interface, and compares it with several other interfaces in a user study. With rich metadata and rating information, more attractive user interfaces are enabled, including slideshow authoring and photo recommendations.   
whitepaper Growing opt-in lists--turning web browsers into buyers: Best Practices to Succeed2006-10-01 GOT
  "Pay-per-click" banners, search marketing, website SEO optimization...business owners are investing more money than ever driving traffic to their Web sites in the hope of generating sales. According to Jupiter Research the number of people shopping online is well over 64 million and increasing at a rate of 10 per cent every year. More broadly, that translates into 17 plus billion dollars up for grabs during the holiday months of November and December alone.

It is no wonder business owners are scrambling to gain competitive traction, by utilizing loyalty-building email marketing tactics to capture these visitors, and communicate with them in an ongoing revenue-producing way. Without question, the easiest way to find relevant email addresses is to ask every consumer who visits your Web site for theirs. Download this White Paper to learn the most effective methods for capturing site traffic, and using email marketing to turn these browsers into long-term, repeat buyers.

Tags: Business Strategies, Site Marketing, E-mail Marketing		   
whitepaper How Does Ping Really Work?2006-10-01 Global Knowledge
  Ping is an Internet program that most of us use daily, but do you know how it really works? Gain an understanding of the cycle of processing associated with ping.

Tags: Diagnostics and Analysis, Frame Relay, Industry Standard Protocols, TCP - IP, IP Technologies, Search Strategies, Web Protocols, Network Administration		   
whitepaper Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia2006-09-15 IBM
  Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has attracted attention both because of its popularity and its unconventional policy of letting anyone on the internet edit its articles. This paper describes the results of an empirical analysis of Wikipedia and discusses ways in which the Wikipedia community has evolved as it has grown. This paper contrasts its findings with an earlier study and presents three main results. First, the community maintains a strong resilience to malicious editing, despite tremendous growth and high traffic. Second, the fastest growing areas of Wikipedia are devoted to coordination and organization. Finally, it focuses on a particular set of pages used to coordinate work, the "Talk" pages.

Tags: Programming Languages		   
whitepaper Secure Search Returns Best Results2006-09-01 Oracle
  For many years, Oracle Database has been the leader in the database market, storing ever-increasing amounts of data. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search now extends data management beyond the database to every archive, file server, e-mail server, and desktop in the enterprise. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search can index all of the datasources discussed and more than 100 document formats, including PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, HTML, and XML. It supports indexing and searching in all major languages and all through the same search interface. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search supports administration through a Web page created during installation.

Tags: Database Management, Database Applications		   
whitepaper Learning User Interaction Models for Predicting Web Search Result Preferences2006-08-06 Association for Computing Machinery
  Evaluating user preferences of web search results is crucial for search engine development, deployment, and maintenance. The paper presents a real-world study of modeling the behavior of web search users to predict web search result preferences. Accurate modeling and interpretation of user behavior has important applications to ranking, click spam detection, web search personalization, and other tasks. The key insight to improving robustness of interpreting implicit feedback is to model query-dependent deviations from the expected "Noisy" user behavior. It is shown that the model of clickthrough interpretation improves prediction accuracy over state-of-the-art clickthrough methods.   
whitepaper Evaluating Your (and Your Competitors') Overall SEM Presence2006-07-25 SEMphonic
  Knowing what the competition is up to isn't just idle curiosity. From a SEM perspective, it can help to identify gaps in one's own program, bidding opportunities, SEO flaws and techniques, new advertising approaches and even gaps in the competitors programs that can be exploited. It can also help a SEM Manager let people in his or her own organization know how their budget stacks up in the industry and how much bang-for-the-buck they are getting.

Tags: Sales - Marketing		   
whitepaper Designing User Studies for XML Retrieval2006-07-07 University of Helsinki
  Ever since the research on XML retrieval started, the paper has seen little cooperation between the researchers and the system developers in the field. Consequently, some of the issues that seem fundamental to the researchers are trivial to the developers. For example, the existence of the real users of XML retrieval is rarely questioned by those who make money selling such software. As an attempt to bridge the gap between the far too separated parties, the paper discusses some issues that have been subject to user studies in recent years and suggest improvements for them.

Tags: XML		   
whitepaper XML Full-Text Search in DB22006-06-29 IBM
  With the support of natively storing XML documents, IBM DB2 9 takes an evolutionary step towards a hybrid database system. XQuery, a new primary language in DB2, allows for optimally working with XML. However, XML also often contains large portions of text that are not easily searchable with XQuery. To efficiently search these unstructured parts of the documents, DB2 provides a full-text search solution. This paper focuses on the basics of DB2 text search, including text index creation and administration. This paper also explores specific features of DB2 full-text search, such as searching for keywords or phrases in the XML document structure with fuzzy search, proximity search, and stemming.

Tags: XML, Programming Languages		   
whitepaper Does Your Web Site Understand Customer-ese?: "Smarten Up" Search to Increase Sales Conversions and Revenue2006-06-26 CustomerThink
  With more and more consumers doing more and more of their business online, companies need to be aware of the online customer experience. Consumers need to have confidence in the company's ability to deliver an online experience that is designed around their unique needs. Many companies, however, do not understand the needs of their customers and, as a result, lose sales opportunities - and customer loyalty and satisfaction. One way to enhance the customers' experience at the web site is through an integrated search.

Tags: CRM Software, Site Marketing		   


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