Improving the quality of search engine results is the goal of costly efforts by major Web search engine companies. Using in situ side-by-side result set comparisons and random assignment of brandnames to result sets, we investigated whether perceptions of quality were influenced by brand association. In the first experiment (15 searchers) we found no significant preference for or against result...

The purpose of this study is to identify several areas of forensic interest within the Yahoo! Messenger application, which are of forensic significance. This study focuses on new areas of interest within the file structure of Windows Vista and Windows 7. One of the main issues with this topic is that little research has been previously conducted on the new Windows platforms. Previously conducte...

The purpose of this study is to identify several areas of forensic interest within the Yahoo! Messenger application, which are of forensic significance. This study focuses on new areas of interest within the file structure of Windows Vista and Windows 7. One of the main issues with this topic is that little research has been previously conducted on the new Windows platforms. Previously conducte...

Search, exploration and social experience on the Web has recently undergone tremendous changes with search engines, web portals and social networks o↵ering a di↵erent perspective on information discovery and consumption. This new perspective is aimed at capturing user intents, and providing richer and highly connected experiences. The new battleground revolves around technologies for the ingest...

The equilibrium model of Ellison, Fudenberg, and Möbius (2004) predicts that, if two competing auction sites are coexisting, then seller revenues and buyer-seller ratios on each site should be approximately equal. We examine these hypotheses using …eld experiments selling identical items on the eBay and Yahoo auction sites. We …nd evidence that is inconsistent with the equilibrium hypotheses, a...