Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid

Readings for April 13th, 2008

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DNJournal: The Domain Giant You Didn't Know: Rob Grant's Roundabout Route to Real Estate Riches (Online and Off!)

Published on 2008-04-13 17:10:43 2 Comments Edit
URL: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2008/april.htm

There are certain names that everyone in this industry knows, names that newcomers normally encounter within hours of entering the domain business. Names like Rick Schwartz, Kevin Ham, Frank Schilling, the Castello Brothers and others from a small band of pioneers who have reached the top of a mountain that thousands of others continue to climb. Most in that group became wealthy because they were visionaries who foresaw how valuable domain names would become long before they appeared on anyone else's radar.

Rob Grant may not be as widely known as some of his pioneering peers, but few in the industry can match the foresight, financial commitment and unwavering faith in the future of domains that Grant has shown over the past 12 years. During that time the personable real estate broker from upstate New York assembled the world's best collection of real estate related domain names (as well as some gems in other categories).

Source: DNJournal

Rob is one of the nicest guys in the biz, great domain collection, and an amazing family!

Great read Ron, thanks!

Sagar

Science Daily: Researchers Classify Web Searches

Published on 2008-04-13 16:58:00 1 Comment Edit
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080410115336.ht...

The research was the first published work of its kind done using actual searching data, with the aim of real-time classification. Researchers analyzed more than 1.5 million queries from hundreds of thousands of search engines users. Findings showed that about 80 percent of queries are informational and about 10 percent each are for navigational and transactional purposes.

Jansen and his colleagues arrived at those results by selecting random samples of records and analyzing query length, the order of the query in the session and the search results. These fields helped the team develop an algorithm that classified the searches with a 74-percent accuracy rate.

"Other results have classified comparatively much smaller sets of queries, usually manually," Jansen said. "This research aimed to classify queries automatically.

"Our findings have broad implications for search engines and e-commerce if they can classify the user intent of queries in real time. This is why we wanted a computational undemanding algorithm," Jansen continued. "It proves the 80/20 rule that 80 percent of the cases can be achieved with these clear-cut methods."

Source: Science Daily

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