This paper discusses the emerging trend of Personal Desktop Searching utilities on desktop PCs, and how the information cached and stored with these systems can be retrieved and analysed, even after the original document has been removed. Focusing on the free Google Desktop Search program, this paper first analyses how the program operates, the processes involved, files created and altered, and...

We discuss a method to populate ontologies with the use of googled text fragments. We populate an ontology by the use of hand-crafted domain-specific relation patterns, which can be seen as a generalization of Hearst patterns. The algorithm described uses instances of some class returned by Google to find instances of other classes. A case study on populating an ontology on the movie domain is ...

We provide plausibly identified evidence for the role of investor disagreement in asset pricing. Our natural experiment exploits staggered implementation Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system, which induces a reduction disagreement. Consistent with models disagreement, EDGAR inclusion helps resolve around information events, leading to stock price corrections. The fo...