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whitepaper Making Web Results Relevant With SAS2007-05-14 SAS Institute
  Many companies search the Web to learn about their competition and understand their potential customers. But how accurate are these search results? For instance, has anyone ever submitted the query "SAS", only to get results back about "Scandinavian Airline Systems"? This paper presents a SAS-based solution to accessing and clustering Yahoo! search engine results by using SAS Text Miner. The paper demonstrates how to use matrix factorization techniques, clustering algorithms, and visualizations to discriminate between subsets of documents that are returned as the result of a query.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis		   
whitepaper Searching One Billion Web Images by Content: Challenges and Opportunities2007-05-13 Springer Science+Business Media
  Although content-based image retrieval has been studied for decades, most commercial image search engines are still text-based. However, there is a growing demand for techniques to support content-based image search at web scale. This paper proposes an ambitious goal to searching one billion web images by content, and discusses the major challenges and opportunities. This paper also presents several important applications that can be greatly benefited by techniques to enable web-scale image search by content. These applications include image copyright infringement detection, street-side photo search, and search-based image annotation.

Tags: Search Strategies		   
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 Microsoft Webcast: Infrastructure Optimization (Part 11 of 11): Empower People to Find Information and Expertise With Enterprise Search2007-04-25 Microsoft
  Enabling the people in organization to quickly find, use, and share the right information is critical to helping them make better business decisions, be more productive, and achieve greater success. Information workers need to access information from across their desktops, the company network, application databases, and from people and experts. This webcast shows how enterprise search solutions empowers one with familiar, integrated user interfaces (UIs) to help to meet the business challenges associated with finding, using, and sharing information across enterprise. The attendee of this webcast will learn how enterprise search solutions can help reduce the time people spend looking for information by providing business-ready search capabilities that quickly, securely, and seamlessly locate the most relevant business information.

Tags: Search Strategies		   
whitepaper XQuery: Navigating Input Documents Using Paths2007-04-01 O'Reilly Media
  Path expressions are used to navigate input documents to select elements and attributes of interest. This paper explains how to use path expressions to select elements and attributes from an input document and apply predicates to filter those results. It also covers the different methods of accessing input documents. A path expression is made up of one or more steps that are separated by a slash (/) or double slashes (//).

Tags: XML		   
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 Microsoft Webcast: New Search and Organization Features in Windows Vista (Level 100)2007-03-27 Microsoft
  This webcast will help to work more productively and efficiently right away! The webcast shows how the new search and organization features in the Windows Vista operating system enables to find the information one need more quickly and easily. It explores how to quickly retrieve e-mail messages, documents, and many other file types located on computer and within corporate network. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to use tags to organize information more efficiently so he or she can easily find it later, no matter where it is saved.

Tags: Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Momentum Webcast: Microsoft Search Solutions to Find, Use, and Share Information (Level 100)2007-03-19 Microsoft
  Successful organizations are bridging the gap between a deluge of information and efficient business action. This webcast shows how Microsoft information management solutions enables to find, use, and share information more quickly, easily, and securely which can result in better business decisions, production increases, and greater business success. The attendee of this webcast will learn how Microsoft solutions, including the Windows Vista operating system, Windows Desktop Search, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, can help improve individual and organizational success by securely connecting with the right information, empowering to apply information effectively and convert business insight into organizational knowledge.

Tags: Windows Vista, Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Podcast: Driving the Corporate Knowledgebase with Intellectual Property Management0000-00-00 Coveo Solutions
  Listen to this Outlook Series podcast on enterprise search, featuring Laurent Simoneau, President and CEO of Coveo Solutions. Simoneau argues that corporate data is a critical strategic asset that loses its value if you can't find the information you need when you need it. Simoneau goes on to describe the differentiating features that set his company's solutions—Coveo Enterprise Search (CES) and Coveo Enterprise Search for SharePoint (CESS)—apart from competing products such as the Google Search Appliance.

Tags: Document Management, ERP, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Strategic Planning		   


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