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World-Wide Web Survey Research: Benefits, Potential Problems, and Solutions

The World-Wide Web presents survey researchers with an unprecedented tool for the collection of data. The costs in terms of both time and money for publishing a survey on the web are low compared w ith costs associated wi th conventional surveying methods. The data entry stage is eliminated for the survey administrator, and software can ensure that the data acqui red f rom participants is free ...

A Survey of World Wide Web Caching

Academic and corporate communities have been dedicating considerable eeort to World Wide Web caching, When correctly deployed, Web caching systems can lead to significant bandwidth savings, server load balancing, perceived network latency reduction, and higher content availability. In this paper, we survey state-of-the-art caching designs and implementations. We present a taxonomy of architec-t...

Trust on the World Wide Web: A Survey

The success of the Web is based largely on its open, decentralized nature; at the same time, that allows for a wide range of perspectives and intentions. Trust is required to foster successful interactions and to filter the abundance of information. In this review, we present a comprehensive survey of trust on the Web in all its contexts. Three main targets of trust are identified: content, ser...

Results from the First World-Wide Web User Survey

The explosion of World Wide Web (WWW) across the Internet is staggering, both in terms of number of users and the amount of activity. However, to date, no reliable characterization exists of WWW browser users. In this paper, we report results from a survey that was posted on the Web for a month, in January of 1994. There were several goals motivating our survey. First, we wished to demonstrate ...

Information Extraction from World Wide Web A Survey