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For languages with rich content over the web, business reviews are easily accessible via many known websites, e.g., Yelp.com. For languages with poor content over the web like Arabic, there are very few websites (we are actually aware of only one that is indeed unpopular) that provide business reviews. However, this does not mean that such reviews do not exist. They indeed exist unstructured in websites...
A focused crawler traverses the web selecting out relevant pages according to a predefined topic. While browsing the internet it is difficult to identify relevant pages and predict which links lead to high quality pages. In this paper, we propose a crawler system using genetic algorithm to improve its crawling performance. Apart from estimating the best path to follow, our system also expands its...
Whenever the question arises how a product, a personality, a technology or some other specific entity is perceived by the public, the blogosphere is a very good source of information. This is what usually interests business users from marketing or PR. Modern search services offer a rich set of tools to monitor or track the blogosphere as a whole, but the analysis with respect to a certain domain is...
With the increasing popularity of e-commerce, the comparison shopping site gets a broad space for its development with professional, convenient and quick characters. This paper introduced the relevant concepts on comparison shopping site firstly, then it analyzed the development status and existing problems of China's comparison shopping web site. Lastly, it advanced some targeted proposals.
E-commerce has changes the way people buy and sell. It provides customers with instant access to products or services at any given time, without physical barriers and provides sellers to access wide range of customers locally or globally. In order to maximize revenue from online trade, companies must have a usable E-commerce systems and websites, which give customers a good product perception, real...
Crawlers are software which can traverse the Internet and retrieve Webpages by hyperlinks. In the face of the inundant spam Websites, traditional Web crawlers cannot function well to solve this problem. Semantic focused crawlers utilize semantic web technologies to analyze the semantics of hyperlinks and Web documents. This paper briefly reviews the recent studies on one category of semantic focused...
Nowadays, many users use web search engines to find and gather information. User faces an increasing amount of various semi-structured information sources. The issue of correlating, integrating and presenting related information to users becomes important. When a user uses a search engine such as Yahoo and Google to seek a specific information, the results are not only information about the availability...
Content delivery is the key factor in development and application of the tourism Web sites. This paper employs the Rachman and Buchanan's research method to study the content delivery of the top three famous tourism Web sites in Chinese mainland, the result shows that their content delivery exist some default and insufficiency. Some improving ways also discussed for these tourism Web sites.
The objective of this paper is to search for lead users and to evaluate the efficacy of the toolkits used for innovation facilitators in the Web 2.0 context. After interviews and surveys conducted at a popular Taiwan-based community Website, we found that individuals with large numbers of hits have a higher likelihood of being lead users because they are highly active users of the Websitepsilas newly...
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