www.Betfair.com: World-Wide Wagering

www.Betfair.com: World-Wide Wagering

Many industries are being changed fundamentally as entrepreneurs discover how to use the Internet to create higher customer value. Betfair turned the gaming industry upside down with its exchange for gamblers. It found a very efficient and effective way to match those who want to make and take bets, and also made these gamblers 10 percent better off compared to betting via traditional channels....

Revidovaná Architektúra World Wide Web­u (revised World Wide Web Architecture)

na získanie vedecko-akademickej hodnosti philosophiae doctor vo vednom odbore: 25-21-9 Počítačové prostriedky a systémy Bratislava, december 2008

2 THE WORLD WIDE WEB 32 The World Wide

The rapid growth of the World Wide Web (WWW), a distributed hypermedia system implemented on the Internet, has led to simple and widespread access to vast repositories of information. In contrast to much ongoing WWW work that has focussed on access to structured and unstructured data (text, images etc.) repositories, we analyze the problem of accessing repositories of \computable" information (...

World Wide Web

Querying the World Wide

1 The World Wide Web is a large, heterogeneous , distributed collection of documents connected by hypertext links. The most common technology currently used for searching the Web depends on sending information retrieval requests to "index servers" that index as many documents as they can nd by navigating the network. One problem with this is that users must be aware of the various index servers...