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Online information search is often seen as a highly utilitarian task but consumers' diverse ways of using the web have brought forth more hedonic information search patterns. At the same time, the impact of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) on consumer purchase decisions is increasing. The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences between hedonic and utilitarian eWOM search in the light...
Internet is a the biggest library of the world containing huge information that is not organized properly. Hence searching for exact information in this big library is a difficult, tiring and time consuming job. This is because World Wide Web (WWW) does not include the user during surfing and purely focuses on documents and links among the documents. Therefore, there is no way to surf together with...
In most of e-commerce site, evaluation systems are employed to evaluate each user after the tradings. Normally, seller's evaluation score is shown in e-commerce site that is computed based on score given by buyers. In recent e-commerce site, the evaluation is based on multiple attributes and buyers give their thinking for each attribute. In this viewpoint, the seller evaluation in e-commerce is collected...
The Web is rapidly evolving form a human-to-machine to a human-to-human communication means. Unfortunately the current proliferation of Social Networking Web sites is generating fragmentation and lack of interoperability. In order to be in contact with friends users must be subscribed and upload their contents to the same online Social networking provider. In this paper we propose a concrete alternative...
Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) can be used as a way to modernize Legacy Applications (LAs), in particular to provide users with an innovative, state-of-the-art interactive experience. RIAs have the same richness in term of interaction grammar as Client-Server Applications (CSAs) and Desktop Applications (DAs), giving designers the opportunity to exploit the Web infrastructure also in domains where...
Social networks have made a significant impact on how today's Internet users communicate, search for and share data. Numerous proposals have been made to improve existing distributed systems by leveraging the inherent trust built into social links. Some researchers believe that augmenting online marketplaces with social networking should improve trust between transaction partners and improve user...
Through on-line surveys, information about 1060 American and 909 Taiwanese internet users were collected and analyzed with a view to comparing their channel selection behavior in shopping for a variety of product services. Individual demographic factors (i.e., gender, age, and education) and their shopping orientations were used as the predictors of their use of the Web, catalogs, and retail stores...
On the basis of extant literature, we built a conceptual model of the relationship among Perceived Quality, Perceived Value, Satisfaction, Sense of Belonging and Usage, and proposed some hypotheses about the influencing factors of continued system usage in SNS. To test the hypotheses, we designed a questionnaire, and conducted a survey in Xidian University. We used SPSS13.0 to analyze the collected...
E-commerce in China is fast growing, but online purchase conversion rate is still low. To increase consumer trust to ecommerce Web site and encourage online transaction, ecommerce platform suppliers usually apply high-usability Web site design, and therefore interactivity is frequently used. However, its effect on highest purchasing price might not be always positive. This study tested the interaction...
the emergence of the Internet and electronic commerce development expedites network behavior, thus appear a large number of professional engaged in network service specialized website, based on the influence factors of groupon development summarized analysis to find the key factors influence the development of the future, and give advice to the business model development, marketing function using...
There has been a rapid growth in electronic commerce in China. However the gap between them is large. So we selected typical Consumer to Consumer (c2c) website as evaluation objects. From the angle of "website promotion", we design six metrics of reach, bounce rate, pageviews, pageviews/user, search traffic and time on site as the evaluation point. Using correspondence analysis, the result...
By the investigation and research on China Agriculture Information and agriculture-related sites, this paper has analyzed the problems of websites inadequate for rural regional economy. And it also gives some views to accelerating the construction of the agriculture-related sites from the angle of regional characteristics, hoping for providing reference to promote the process of agricultural information.
Now days, Internet in becoming a basic medium communication either for business or individual life as most countries in the world are applying free internet access. However, absence of proper regulation has lead to social epidemic such as reducing working performance, addiction to pornographic sites and online gamming. Organization, companies and family institutions are fully aware of the current...
This paper investigated the factors that influence consumers in Malaysia to repurchase online. The emergence of Internet technology has created avenues for all firms to stay competitive through a more proactive approach, which involves building a sustainable business practice that leads to better business opportunities in this digital era. It is becoming critical for online firms to understand their...
This work presents a classifier capable of classifying websites accessed by a community of users based on characteristics of web traffic they generate. The classifier introduced here can be used for engineering web traffic. This classifier is capable of identifying a few different classes of websites based on intensity of bursts of web requests made to each website in both the long and the short run...
Ever since the Internet first emerged as a viable medium for commercial and informational purposes, the scholars began to focus on the users' online visit behavior, in order to obtaining some yardsticks to gauge the success of online retail and content sites. However, owing to the difficulty of accessing the transaction logs, academically the click stream gold mine is underexploited. Especially, the...
Most essential issues in e-Government services are how to improve the e-government information quality, usability, accessibility and effectiveness of e-government services for citizen. Current studies on e-government evaluations are focusing on measuring the rating of services to evaluate the website source and services. However, it is difficult to know a factual satisfaction of users with this method...
This study attempts to investigate how perceived information quality (PIQ) and perceived customer orientation (PCO) engage in affecting customer trust. These two constructs are expected to have direct and synergistic effects on customer trust during an online shopping. This article exploits the moderating role of PCO in the effect of PIQ on customer trust, in addition to the direct effects of PIQ...
Web transfer protocol developed from the first plain HTTP to SHTTP and HTTPS, now the developing SPDY. It is also widely used in e-commerce web site transfer protocol. This paper analyzes these network protocols, the author tried Apache httpd server with SSL/TSL support, and prospects the future development of web security protocol.
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