...Ask.com "Just when you thought Microsoft and Yahoo were going to get on with their lives, it’s (Ask.com) going to paralyze them once again." CEO of Ask.com after acquisition of Lexcio Publishing Group1 Ask.com is America’s fourth largest search engine with a considerable fan following and market share of around 4%. Recently Ask.com has expanded into European and Asian market. Ask.com is known for its technical innovation even thought it is not a market leader in search engine technology, yet it is one search engine which refuses to fade away. Interestingly it has been seen that while Google continues to expand, while Yahoo and Windows Live are struggling to maintain their market share, and one time giant Time Warner (AOL) is now reduced to a small player and gets its search results from Google, Ask.com has managed to retain its small but considerable market share. This may be attributed to heavy spending by Ask’s parent company IAC on advertising and Marketing. But continuous innovation like Ask3D which merges all results with images and maps in same result page, technological advance like morph which intelligently shows most relevant result type, and sometimes cashing on Market situations like the introduction of AskEraser after privacy concerns erupted when AOL released data of 650,000 users have managed to keep Ask.com in the market2. It has not been shy of competing with the market leaders like Google, its Ask3D feature was a winner over Google’s Universal Search technology3...
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...Educations Sectors (b) Banking and Finance Sectors (c) Medicines Sectors (d) Business Sectors (e) Entertainment and Recreation Sectors Identify and briefly describe the benefits of using computers in various sectors. Provide with examples of companies who increase in productivity and revenue. 200-250 word count Question 2 How are biometric technologies being used, and how likely are they to be used in the future? What are the benefits and successes of biometric technologies? What are the challenges to the use of biometric technologies? What should enterprises keep in mind when considering biometric technologies? 200-250 word count Question 3 There are several Web search engines such as Google.com, Ask.com, Msn.com, Yahoo.com and other search engines. Compare each of its functions / criteria determine which search engine you would recommend and the reasons for your recommendations. 200-250 word count ______________________________________________________________________________ Assignment Submission Date : 28th June 2016……. before 5pm Submission via online –...
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...Background Summary Founded on September 4, 1998 Google quickly revolutionized the search engine and the Internet alike. Within two years of starting operations Google had become the largest single search engine in the world and began to dominate the market. As the World Wide Web (web) grew in popularity and became more and more a part of everyone’s daily life, Google too grew in popularity “because it could provide simple, fast, and relevant search results” (Deresky, 2011). The differentiating factor was Google’s “PageRank technology which displays results…by looking for keywords inside web pages, but also gauging the importance of a search result based on the number and popularity of other sites that linked to the page” (Deresky, 2011). The use of Google has always been free to the user, the two revenue-generating avenues that have made Google one of the most profitable companies of the last decade is advertising and selling its technology. Google’s advertising branch is called AdWords and allows those wishing to advertise to “create ads and choose keywords, which are words or phrases related to the business. When people search on Google using keywords, ads appear next to or above search results” (Google.com). With the rapid success experienced in the U.S., Google quickly grew their business into the global arena by offering search results in hundreds of languages and being available on hundreds of different domains. This expansion helped to significantly increase...
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...BCIS – ASSIGNMENT 1 Developing Information Management Skills Overview Dynamic Global Transformation (DGT), a consultancy company in the construction industry, is aware that their electronic records of in-house information and knowledge are largely unstructured and often unreliable. They realise that despite having the technology already in place they don't use it effectively. In order to sustain their competitive advantage in the consultancy field their immediate priority is to address the fundamental Information Management objectives in the Information Age: To know the most efficient way for finding information online To know how to confirm the reliability of the information/findings To be able to manage online information DGT have invited ‘Three’s Company’ to help them develop their information management skills by guiding them through the process of retrieving electronic information. Our presentation and associated papers will assist DGT with the above by; Advising DGT of an appropriate online training site from a selection available. Demonstrating best practice of an appropriate search strategy for Online Recruitment, including a flow chart to illustrate the process. Providing an annotated list of the best references for Online Recruitment. Evaluating Three’s Company personal experiences of online searching. Presenting Three’s Company’s summarised recommendations to DGT using a PowerPoint presentation and a further illustration showing the...
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...Air France Case Brief Executive Summary Rob Griffin, the senior vice president and U.S. director of search for Media contacts, a media consulting firm, is faced with the task of optimizing search engine marketing (SEM) for Air France as the company seeks to compete in the hyper-competitive U.S. market. Even though Griffin is satisfied with the performance of his company, he wants to make the team to remain the leading position and provide the results that Air France wanted. At the time of the case, SEM has become an advertising phenomenon, with North American advertisers spent $ 9.4 billion in the SEM channel, up to 62% in 2005. In the past, Media contacts h had concentrated on Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo for the search engine marketing campaigns, with the emergence of metasearch sites like Kayak.com, Griffin faces new questions: “Should Media Contacts recommend a uniform strategy for Air France across search engine publishers? Or would it be more effective to tailor each publisher strategy to maximize return on investment? How can campaigns be improved to increase overall value gained from investment with a search engine publisher? How should future SEM campaigns be structured?” This report aims to provide answers to the above questions. Current Situation E-commerce has emerged as a fast growing sales medium, particularly in travel where the product is intangible. The travel industry comprised three types of online service providers. The direct websites are owned by...
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...Kiril is a CEO of Big Skinny – a wallet that can hold the same amount of “stuff” but it also looks and feels skinny. It doesn’t bulge out in the pocket, aesthetically pleasing and easy to handle. In the opening of this study, we are introduced to the company through anecdotal account of how over 4000 wallets have been sold, but unfortunately no revenue was to speak of since there was a glitch, causing customers to buy the wallet for free. This is a case study on how Kiril took Big Skinny online. The product that sells itself. Kiril created a wallet that looks like a traditional wallet outside but inside it packs up to 40 credit cards and still comes less than an inch thick. The material used is is one of the thinnest but a very durable material on the market made out of microfibers. The wallet, called Big Skinny, did very well in physical locations in terms of sales. At first it was in trade-shows and then it sold at various festivals and locations. Soon Kiril started physical advertisement using traditional media such as print and billboards like advertisement. Big skinny was doing so well that customers became instant fans. Judging by the response from traditional advertising seemed to be working. So after Kiril decided to take Big Skinny online. The Case study goes on to dispense how Big Skinny had gone from offline to online. Taking big skinny online. Despite having online presence from the start using e-commerce online store, Kiril had a challenge on his hand with...
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...In this day and age you can find almost any information you require on the internet. Whether it be a recipe for red velvet cupcakes, the likelihood of rain on the weekend or the date the Americans signed the declaration of independence, there is a plethora of information only a mouse click or fingertip away. As technology advances so does our requirement for knowledge and information. We want to know more and we want to know it yesterday. This is where internet search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask Jeeves, Webopedia and Mahalo come into play. These incredible sights help us find the information we want and they do it at lightning fast speed, often returning hundreds if not thousands of results in a matter of seconds. These results can be filtered with a simple quotation mark to help lessen the amount of results that come back and specify search results. Information on any topic you require is right there on the screen of you computer, tablet or smart phone. It is after this super speed search that the problems begin. Yes, it is amazing to have 5,000 results come back for a search on “Conspiracy theories of The Shinning” however within this large amount of search results there will also be a large amount of very useless information that may not even be related to the actual search you were after. This is just the beginning of the real search. Say you were looking for the opening hours of a restaurant you had never been to before and you type the restaurant name into...
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...using search engines, little was found. When I first said searching, I decided to use google.com and ask.com as my search engines. I decided to look for academic honesty in higher learning (in its entirety). I had more luck with my findings when I used google.com than when I used ask.com. I picked a few websites that sounded like they'd be useful when writing a paper on the topic. The first two that I chose to visit were findarticles.com and wiki.answers.com. Wiki.answers.com literally gave a one sentence definition of what is believed to be academic dishonesty. Findarticles.com gave a short and simple description on academic dishonesty in online courses and provided a few links to articles about academic dishonesty. Those articles gave very little information on plagiarism and other terms defining academic dishonesty. One of the articles only informed a person about using correct citations in a paper and it was only six to eight sentences long. As with google.com, ask.com provided many links to many different colleges and academic institutions. I'm looking for academic integrity, not links to colleges, or links to different colleges' guidelines on their ideas on academic integrity (although they could somewhat prove to be useful). One thing that I was hoping for were statistics (real case studies) on academic dishonesty in higher learning. I did a search using ask.com for statistics on academic dishonesty. A lot of data was found, but it's accuracy is undetermined...
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...Scholarly articles for study habits definition | COGNITIVE STRATEGIES AND STUDY HABITS: AN … - Christensen - Cited by 78… the Health and Behaviour in Teenagers Study (HABITS … - Wardle - Cited by 127Locus of control, study habits and attitudes, and college … - Prociuk - Cited by 44 | | Search Results 1. Definition of Study Habits? - Ask.com www.ask.com › Q&A › Business › Other Study habits are defined as the regular tendencies and practices that one depicts during the process of gaining information through learning. Your study habits. 2. Study Habits - Research Papers - Cutiefunk13 www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Study-Habits/60650 Mar 2, 2012 - Study habits are the ways that you study - the habits that you have ... By this definition alone, we can say that the person involves is the one ... 3. What is the definition of study habits? - Yahoo Answers https://ph.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid... Jan 22, 2009 - A HABIT is something that is done on a scheduled, regular and planned basis that is not relegated to a seccond place or optional place in one's life. 4. What is the Definition of study habit - Wiki Answers wiki.answers.com › ... › Definitions and Word Differences It means you are not distracted by anything, you have a certain place to go where it is quiet everyday where you study and do homework. Basically it means that ... 5. Study skills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_skills Study skills or study strategies...
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...source of finance is generally the place where money comes from. Finance. I will be describing what internal and external ... www.markedbyteachers.com/.../business.../finance-i-will-be-describing-... Finance. I will be describing what internal and external sources are. ... Owner's fund The owner of a business might have to use there own savings to start there ... P4 Describe Sources of Internal and External Finance for a ... www.termpaperwarehouse.com › Business and Management Jun 10, 2014 - Read this essay on P4 – Describe Sources of Internal and External Finance for a Selected Business . Come browse our large digital ... [PPT]External sources of finance - BTEC Business btecbusiness.weebly.com/uploads/6/8/7/9/.../p4_sources_of_finance.ppt P4 Describe sources of internal and external finance for a selected business. This must be applied to a specific business, so choose one to base your work on ... Assignment 3 P4 - Level 3 Business Ms Groves - Google Sites https://sites.google.com/site/.../home/...2-business-resources/assignmen ... evidence for: § P4 Describe sources of internal and external finance for a selected business ... Finance P4.pptx. (91k) ... Finance ResourcesP4.pdf. (239k). Assignment 3 - P3, P4 - Sir Bernard Lovell Business https://sites.google.com/site/sirbernardlovellbusiness/home/btec...3/.../merit Task 1 - Describe the main physical and technological resources required in the ... 2 - Describe sources of internal and external finance for a selected...
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...Nuclear Energy Jackie Johnson SCI 207 Dependence of men on the environment Haleh Keshtker Jan. 29,2012 Nuclear Energy Will the Chernobyl nuclear is the large environmental disaster caused by the meltdown at the nuclear power plant near Chernobyl, Ukraine, dramatically changed the world’s opinion about using nuclear power reaction for power. But se the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was built the wooded marshlands of northern, Ukraine, approximately 80 miles north of Kiev. But see the first reactor went online in 1977, but the second in 1978, third in 1981, and the last in 1983, two more were planned for construction ( Ask.com 20th century History). See the media is comparing the threat to Chernobyl and some politicians are calling nuclear for a complete moratorium on the spread of nuclear energy. This is nothing more than sensationalist fearmonering. But see the Chernobyl disaster was caused by the absurd inefficiencies of the soviets and massive flaws in the power plants design. Here is something that is should the container be breached the Japanese government already has things in place to pour concrete over it as was don’t to contain Chernobyl. But see it is not right for Nuclear energy to work there butts off to help out in this world if Japanese government wants to power concrete over everything before they ask the rest of the world if they want that to happen. But see it is worth noting that the facility itself was fairly aged- Forty years, I read in one article-...
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...To change the Caveman-like policy on paid time off (“PTO”) to the new unlimited PTO means to eliminate “vacation days” and “sick days” or a specific number of days given to employees to take off each year. Instead, company would allow employees to take as much as they need without being docked any pay. Before moving on to choosing the more suitable PTO policy, we do a research and analysis to have a better understanding about the new unlimited PTO policy. On one hand, the new unlimited PTO policy has some advantages. First of all, this new PTO policy would let employees recharge. The unlimited PTO policy allows employees to schedule in week or two-week-long trips that might not be possible under traditional PTO policy that now is being implemented in our company. The unlimited PTO is a good way to incentivize employees to take the break that could bolster their work output (Griswold, 2013). Studies have shown that people have limited attention and that job performance is improved by both short and long breaks. Indeed, more than 90% of HR professionals believe that vacation improves wellness, morale, performance and productivity, according to the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM’s) 2013 Vacation’s Impact on the Workplace survey report (Milligan, 2015). Secondly, by implementing the unlimited PTO policy, company would have a more engaged workforce. Management is trusting employees to manage their own time in a way that serves their personal needs while still getting...
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...Main Rivals Yahoo!, Microsoft, Ask.com, Paid search providers, MSN, EBAY, market share of the four company Yahoo!is an American multinational internet corporation which is widely known for its web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services. roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo! websites every month. It is the maily competitor of google. Ask.com is a question answering-focused web search engine founded in 1996. In late 2010, facing insurmountable competition from Google, the company outsourced its web search technology and returned to its roots as a question and answer site. Supplier Power - LOW supplier bargaining power is currently low and should remain low because of google’s strong market dominance. unlike many other company in the world, Google could design its own server system so it will not rely on other supplier. Buyer Power – STRONG Buyer power is strong in both the Internet and Computer Software industries. Many service of google are free, so google rely on advertising to generate its revenue. If people choose not to use their services, this could cause a drop in advertising clients, affecting Google’s bottom line. Besides, There are also many companies that create mobile phone operating systems so customers have the choice not to buy Google based phones. Because of this, buyers could potentially control pricing. Competitive Rivalry – MODERATE Google does have current competitors in the search engine game, and (the two largest...
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...The Paper Scholarly articles for epstein difference between parent involvement and parent counselling | Parent involvement in school conceptualizing multiple … - Kohl - Cited by 311Parents as the exclusive agents of change in the … - Golan - Cited by 420The McMaster model of family functioning - Epstein - Cited by 402 | | Search Results 1. Differences Between Parental Involvement and Parental ... www.termpaperwarehouse.com › Other Topics * * * Mar 28, 2013 - Read this essay on Differences Between Parental Involvement and... to Epstein (2005:77-96) the benefits of parental counselling differ from the ... 2. [PDF] About the Difference Between “Parent Involvement” and ... www.urbanschools.org/.../Parent_Involvement.pdf?...Parent%20Involve... * * * About the Difference Between “Parent Involvement” and ... and the work of schools (for example, Joyce Epstein and colleagues at the center on Family, School,. 3. [PDF] Parental Involvement - York Region District School Board www.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/pdfs/w/schools/parentalinvolvement.pdf * * * Successful parental involvement programs provide the link between the home and school that ... To provide parents with access to specific counseling and treatment for their children ... The strongest message of this book is that parents do make adifference. The need for ... (Joyce Epstein, Draft Paper May 1994). WHAT DO ... 4. [PDF] promoting parental...
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...An Honorable Governorship There are many important people that make a difference in the world everyday. Each state has their own share of government officials that perform many different essential job duties. Although I live in Illinois, I thought that it would be interesting to research an individual from another state. Chester “Chet” Culver is the current Governor of Iowa, and has captivated the attention of many citizens of whom he serves. Governor Culver is part of the Democratic party. He is also the first Democrat to be elected governor since 1937. Chet Culver has been Governor in since 2006. With his political experience, besides being Governor of Iowa, he also was elected Secretary of State and was in office from 1998-2006. “Governor Culver began his career as an environmental and consumer advocate in the Iowa Attorney General’s Office. After receiving his Master of Arts in Teaching at Drake University in 1994, he taught government and history at Roosevelt High School and Hoover High School in Des Moines, where he also coached both football and basketball.” ( http://www.governor.iowa.gov/index.php/governor/.) Chet Culver has done many good things for many people he serves dealing with different issues. He was a former teacher that used his teaching knowledge to give strength to Iowa’s educational system. One way he did this was by raising the teachers national pay average. Another thing Chet did was give millions to furnish school improvements. ...
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