long tail

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05:32 Aug 4, 2006
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Tech/Engineering - IT (Information Technology) / mobile search
English term or phrase: long tail
Still not convinced? A recent publication from MediaPost talked about the experiences of an unnamed North American carrier with mobile search. All of the numbers cited below were derived four months after the carrier had deployed WAP-based mobile search on its top 20 handsets.
• The carrier was running more than half a million searches per month.
• After moving its search box to its main page, the carrier saw nearly half again as many unique users and nearly doubled its revenue.
• Sixty percent of the search queries were unique, reflecting the so-called "long tail" of search.
• More than 11 percent of these searches have been ending in sales, with an average purchase coming to $2.55 and rising.
• The average monthly increase in revenue, per user, was more than $1.10.
• Users are apparently getting comfortable with the keypad interface; the longest query entered so far came to 45 characters!
具体指什么?
clearwater
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Local time: 07:31
Chinese translation:FYI
Explanation:
The phrase The Long Tail (as a proper noun with capitalized letters) was first coined by Chris Anderson in a 2004 article in Wired magazine [1] to describe certain business and economic models such as Amazon.com or Netflix. The term long tail is also generally used in statistics, often applied in relation to wealth distributions or vocabulary use. The long tail in probability theory statistics
The long tailThe long tail is the colloquial name for a long-known feature of statistical distributions (Zipf, Power laws, Pareto distributions and/or general Lévy distributions ). The feature is also known as "heavy tails", "power-law tails" or "Pareto tails". Such distributions resemble the accompanying graph.

In these distributions a high-frequency or high-amplitude population is followed by a low-frequency or low-amplitude population which gradually "tails off". In many cases the infrequent or low-amplitude events—the long tail, represented here by the yellow portion of the graph— can cumulatively outnumber or outweigh the initial portion of the graph, such that in aggregate they comprise the majority.

Such distributions are surprisingly common. In standard English, the word "the" is the most common word and other short words such as "of", "is" and "have" are also quite common. These common words are vastly more common than most other words. For example, about 12% of all words are "the" (while "barracks" occurs less than 1 out of 50,000 words), but cumulatively, words roughly as rare as "barracks" make up about a third of all text. These rare words are the long tail in English vocabulary. [2]

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Some how the graph is missing, please refer to the following site-
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pkchan
4(成功可能性小) 长时间等待的(移动)搜索
Ray Luo
3the tail of the demand curve
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(成功可能性小) 长时间等待的(移动)搜索


Explanation:
Google's long-awaited online payment system launched today, ...
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Eventually it will reach a local level — most likely driven by companies like Spot Runner that put video production within the reach of SMEs — and that's when Google will really be able to tap into the long tail in the same way it has done with paid search.

The Long Tail of Invalid Clicks and other Google click fraud concepts ...



    Reference: http://www.kelseygroup.com/blog/index.asp?Block=1&page=3&m=8...
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the tail of the demand curve


Explanation:
http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:zR4vjj7vbdIJ:www.playcon...

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FYI


Explanation:
The phrase The Long Tail (as a proper noun with capitalized letters) was first coined by Chris Anderson in a 2004 article in Wired magazine [1] to describe certain business and economic models such as Amazon.com or Netflix. The term long tail is also generally used in statistics, often applied in relation to wealth distributions or vocabulary use. The long tail in probability theory statistics
The long tailThe long tail is the colloquial name for a long-known feature of statistical distributions (Zipf, Power laws, Pareto distributions and/or general Lévy distributions ). The feature is also known as "heavy tails", "power-law tails" or "Pareto tails". Such distributions resemble the accompanying graph.

In these distributions a high-frequency or high-amplitude population is followed by a low-frequency or low-amplitude population which gradually "tails off". In many cases the infrequent or low-amplitude events—the long tail, represented here by the yellow portion of the graph— can cumulatively outnumber or outweigh the initial portion of the graph, such that in aggregate they comprise the majority.

Such distributions are surprisingly common. In standard English, the word "the" is the most common word and other short words such as "of", "is" and "have" are also quite common. These common words are vastly more common than most other words. For example, about 12% of all words are "the" (while "barracks" occurs less than 1 out of 50,000 words), but cumulatively, words roughly as rare as "barracks" make up about a third of all text. These rare words are the long tail in English vocabulary. [2]

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Note added at 19 hrs (2006-08-05 00:57:44 GMT)
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Some how the graph is missing, please refer to the following site-
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Long Tail

pkchan
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