Who is using the .co.uk domain? Professional and media adoption of the web

Thelwall, Mike

doi:10.1016/s0268-4012(00)00038-4

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“…Many Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the UK do now possess a web site, often one constructed for them by an outside agency or by an enthusiastic employee. Exact figures are difficult to calculate, but a survey of UK sites found that 90% (159 out of 177) had less than 250 employees (Thelwall, 2000) and the survey described here found 3802 business sites from a limited subset of the web. However, the web presence of businesses can be extremely ineffective, leading to a lost opportunity and wasted money (Callaghan and Pie, 1998;Lee, 1998).…”

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Effective websites for small and medium‐sized enterprises

Thelwall

2000

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

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In the UK millions are now online and many are prepared to use the Internet to make and influence purchasing decisions. Businesses should, therefore, consider Management and policy implications• There is a large online population in the UK, probably over ten million have used the web, and many are prepared to use it to at least influence their purchasing decisions. It is, therefore, apparent that businesses of all sizes should consider having a web site.• The design of a web site needs to be viewed primarily as a business task, not a technical task. The web site design needs to be appropriate to the needs of the company and should focus on supporting business goals.• Business managers need to exercise quality control over a web site designed for them by their IT technician or an external web design company because the evidence shows that a majority of sites are substandard.• Managers, to fulfil their quality control role, need to understand that simply having a home page on the web does not mean that anybody will visit the site, this depends upon appropriate site design and registration in search engines.1 Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 7(2), 149-159, (2000) Page 2• Small businesses should consider placing immediate responsibility for the site with the person that is also responsible for marketing, rather than an IT expert.• Simple mainly non-technical tests need to be carried out on any web site designed, including checking how easy it will be for potential customers to find it by typing relevant key words into major search engines.• If using an external agency to design a web site, other sites designed by the agency should be evaluated, using the same tests, before it is hired.• The large number of sites not registered with search engines is causing the potential of the web to be unrealised. Businesses with an existing web site may need to redesign it and reassess the potential of the web once the results of this can be seen.

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Effective websites for small and medium‐sized enterprises

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2000

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

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“…• Selecting web sites by random choices of IP addresses (Lawrence and Giles, 1999a;Kishi et al, 2000). • Selecting web sites by systematic searching of a domain name space (Thelwall, 2000a;Thelwall, 2000c;Thelwall, 2000d). All of these methods have strengths and weaknesses, excluding certain types of web sites.…”

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“…The current importance of the web has spawned many attempts to analyse sets of web pages in order to derive general conclusions about its properties and patterns of use (Crowston and Williams, 1997;Hooi-Im et al, 1998;Ingwerson, 1998;Lawrence and Giles, 1998a;Miller and Mather, 1998;Henzinger et al, 1999;Koehler, 1999;Lawrence and Giles, 1999a;Smith, 1999;Snyder and Rosenbaum, 1999;Henzinger et al, 2000;Thelwall, 2000a;Thelwall, 2000b;Thelwall, 2000d). The enormous size of the web means that any study can only use a fraction of it.…”

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“…Some articles illustrating this necessity are given below. One number-critical activity is to estimate the total number of web pages in existence (Bray, 1996;Bharat and Broder,1998;Lawrence and Giles, 1999a) or the proportion with certain properties (Bar-Yossef, 2000;Kishi et al 2000;Henzinger et al, 2000;Thelwall, 2000a;Thelwall, 2000d). Since the web is too large to survey in entirety, such attempts must be based upon a clearly defined subset of the web, ideally coinciding with accepted definitions (see below) as far as is feasible, although it is believed to be impossible to precisely quantify differences in the context of practically infinite size of the Web, described below.…”

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Methodologies for crawler based Web surveys

Thelwall

2002

Internet Research

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There have been many attempts to study the content of the web, either through human or automatic agents. Five different previously used web survey methodologies are described and analysed, each justifiable in its own right, but a simple experiment is presented that demonstrates concrete differences between them. The concept of crawling the web also bears further inspection, including the scope of the pages to crawl, the method used to access and index each page, and the algorithm for the identification of duplicate pages. The issues involved here will be well-known to many computer scientists but, with the increasing use of crawlers and search engines in other disciplines, they now require a public discussion in the wider research community. This paper concludes that any scientific attempt to crawl the web must make available the parameters under which it is operating so that researchers can, in principle, replicate experiments or be aware of and take into account differences between methodologies. A new hybrid random page selection methodology is also introduced.

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“…We drop false positives (webpages with postcode-like strings which do not contain live postcodes in that year). We also keep only webpages under the .co.uk or ltd.uk second level domain, which represent commercial activities (Thelwall 2000). A potential caveat here is that a UK company might decide to use a ccTLD different than the .uk one (e.g.…”

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Modelling Clusters From The Ground Up: A Web Data Approach

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Tranos²,

Nathan³

2021

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This paper proposes a new methodological framework to identify economic clusters over space and time. We employ a unique open source dataset of geolocated and archived business webpages and interrogate them using Natural Language Processing to build bottom-up classi- fications of economic activities. We validate our method on an iconic UK tech cluster – Shoreditch, East London. We benchmark our results against existing case studies and admin- istrative data, replicating the main features of the cluster and providing fresh insights. As well as overcoming limitations in conventional industrial classification, our method addresses some of the spatial and temporal limitations of the clustering literature.

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Who is using the .co.uk domain? Professional and media adoption of the web

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

Effective websites for small and medium‐sized enterprises

Effective websites for small and medium‐sized enterprises

Methodologies for crawler based Web surveys

Modelling Clusters From The Ground Up: A Web Data Approach

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