Are you an Infomaniac?
Posted by Celia Walter | 15 Aug, 2007Infomania: Why we can't afford to ignore it any longer / by Nathan Zeldes, David Sward, and Sigal Louchheim
First
Monday, volume
12, number 8 (August 2007),
URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/zeldes/index.html
The combination of e–mail overload and interruptions is widely recognized as a
major disrupter of knowledge worker productivity and quality of life, yet few
organizations take serious action against it. This paper makes the case that
this action should be a high priority, by analyzing the severe impact of the
problem in both qualitative and quantitative terms. We attempt to provide
sufficient supporting data from the scientific literature and from corporate
surveys to enable change agents to make the case and convince their
organizations to authorize such action.
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Adversarial Information Retrieval: The Manipulation of Web Content
Posted by Celia Walter | 3 Aug, 2007by Dennis
Fetterly
Microsoft Research
From Computing Review
"...The fraction of Web page referrals that come from search engines is significant, which has created an economic incentive for Web site operators to attempt to manipulate search engine rankings. This manipulation, which is often called Web spam or spamdexing..." is what adversarial information retrieval seeks to identify
"The
results of research into adversarial information retrieval enable search
engines to identify content that attempts to game search engine rankings.
Search engines need to identify this content in order to maintain a positive
user experience..."