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whitepaper Generalizing Google's PageRank to Rank National Football League Teams2008-03-13 SAS Institute
  The ranking of sports teams is of significant importance to those who are involved with or interested in the various professional and amateur leagues that exist around the world. The paper presents a ranking algorithm that is simple to implement in SAS code and which gives results that are consistent with some of the best and most well-known computer methods for ranking sports teams. Whether one is trying to get an edge up on the office pool or to rank the teams for one's daughter's soccer league tournament, the techniques presented here allows to accomplish this easily. The method, inspired by the Google's PageRank algorithm, uses ideas from the PageRank algorithm to rank teams based on their schedule results.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper Distributor Simplifies Digital Records Management With New Operating System2008-03-01 Microsoft Tips
  Employees of logistics service provider Inveso take and store digital pictures of inventory items in order to monitor their stock. Thanks to the new Instant Search function in Windows Vista, Inveso employees can find any photograph they need in just seconds, saving at least 30 minutes of work per day. Inveso is also using productivity enhancements of Windows Vista Ultimate, such as Windows Flip 3D and Windows Sidebar, to work more efficiently.

Tags: Desktop Client OS		   
whitepaper Budget Constrained Bidding in Keyword Auctions and Online Knapsack Problems2008-02-05 Hewlett-Packard
  This paper considers the budget-constrained bidding optimization problem for sponsored search auctions, and models it as an online (multiple-choice) knapsack problem. They design both deterministic and randomized algorithms for the online (multiple-choice) knapsack problems achieving a provably optimal competitive ratio. This translates back to fully automatic bidding strategies maximizing either profit or revenue for the budget-constrained advertiser. To maximize revenue from sponsored search advertising, their bidding strategy can be oblivious (i.e., without knowledge) of other bidders' prices and/or click-through-rates for those positions. This paper evaluates their bidding algorithms using both synthetic data and real bidding data gathered manually, and also discuss a sniping heuristic that strictly improves bidding performance.

Tags: Software Development Tools		   
whitepaper Search and Indexing2008-02-05 Microsoft
  A good enterprise search solution can introduce efficiencies for information workers that amount to cost savings of thousands of dollars per worker per year. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a search platform, upon which one can build flexible, scalable, and powerful enterprise search solutions. This paper outlines the architecture of search in Office SharePoint Server 2007, the crawl processes required to index a wide range of enterprise content and data, etc.

Tags: Internet and Web, Office Suites		   
whitepaper MainRhode Combines Google Search and Google Maps to Provide a Groundbreaking User-Friendly Real Estate Website2008-01-18 Google
  Real estate is a highly competitive market and realtors are looking for ways to stand out from crowd. Following the conventions of Multiple Listing Service (MLS), group of private databases with information about properties for sale, visitors are forced to pick from a limited number of pull-down menus, or check boxes for features of homes, interested in, rather than simply searching in ways they have become accustomed to on Internet. MainRhode deployed Google Search with Google Maps to provide an easy-to-use website that customers can use to search for properties using plain language. The new website has also generated additional leads, as more visitors have started to use the "Ask an Agent" feature that allows them to ask the realtors questions about properties that they have found on the website.

Tags: Mobile and Wireless, Data Tools		   
whitepaper Leading Hospital Boosts Clinical and Administrative Productivity With the Google Search Appliance2008-01-03 Google
  At Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 10,000 staff, physicians, volunteers and students work to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year. Administrators rely on the intranet to find policies and procedures as well as thousands of PDF and Microsoft Office documents housed in more than 100 Microsoft SharePoint repositories. Unfortunately, finding vital content was extremely difficult. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre deployed Google Search Appliance that connected it to dozens of repositories and websites was simple to do. Clinicians can immediately obtain high-quality search results to help them deliver more informed patient care.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper XMLibrary Search: An XML Search Engine Oriented to Digital Libraries2008-01-01 University of Alicante
  The increase in the amount of data available in digital libraries calls for the development of search engines that allow the users to find quickly and effectively what they are looking for. The XML tagging makes possible the addition of structural information in digitized content. These metadata offer new opportunities to a wide variety of new services. This paper describes the requirements that a search engine inside a digital library should fulfill and it also presents a specific XML search engine architecture. This architecture is designed to index a large amount of text with structural tagging and to be web-available.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Leading Consumer Company Boosted Productivity of 23,000 Employees With the Google Search Appliance2007-12-19 Google
  Campbell Soup Company is one of the world's most recognized brands with more than 136 years of company history. It needed to enable its workforce to search the company's corporate intranet for information and obtain fast, relevant results. The existing intranet search solution was not up to par. Queries by employees often returned data that was not relevant to the search criteria, causing inefficiencies and loss of time. Campbell deployed Google Search Appliance that helped in solving key business issues and support its corporate strategic initiative of improving company-wide productivity. Search capabilities for corporate intranet have provided a foundation for increased productivity and effective information dissemination throughout the company.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Google Case Study: Royal & SunAlliance2007-12-19 Google
  Integration problems between Royal & SunAlliance's (RSA) Lotus Notes environment and the existing enterprise search technology used to manage the company's intranet content were causing problems for employees in finding not only internal company information but also applications and documents required to help customers. RSA invested in the Google Search Appliance to use across its global intranet site. Users can locate documents they need quickly and efficiently. The interface for Google Search Appliance is also familiar to users of Google's search engine and, therefore, easy to navigate.

Tags: Internet and Web		   
whitepaper Microsoft Online Customer Story: Intel2007-12-07 Microsoft Tips
  Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Being able to identify and track meaningful conversion events that occur on the site after an ad has been clicked is critical to measuring the success of a business-to-business campaign - and to continuing to deliver a superior customer experience. For that reason, Intel turned to Microsoft adCenter and Paid Insight, a solution offered by SEMDirector for results that can be measured.

Tags: Enterprise Planning