Online shopping and the Harry Potter effect - science-in-society - 22 December 2008 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026873.300-online-shopping-and-the-harry-potter-effect.html?full=true

"Of 13 million tracks available, 52,000 - just 0.4 per cent - accounted for 80 per cent of downloads."

awesome read on the sociology of shopping

The long tail

do I agree? does this matter?

nt us towards more mainstream

Today we're rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions -- both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.

3/24/2009 07:18:00 AM Today we're rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions -- both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.

Semantics in searching

Using data on movie-rating patterns, new Wharton research challenges current thinking on the Long Tail effect

Using data on movie-rating patterns, new Wharton research challenges current thinking on the Long Tail effect ...

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Controversy about the long tail theory

Knowledge@Wharton

One side effect of $1mil Netflix prize was the treasure of data that was made public. Researches at Wharton use it to find out how valid is the Long Tail theory.

Metcalfs Law, Streisand Effect, Long Tail

Google Confirms “Mayday” Update Impacts Long Tail Traffic

This change seems to have primarily impacted very large sites with “item” pages that don’t have many individual links into them, might be several clicks from the home page, and may not have substantial unique and value-added content on them. For instance, ecommerce sites often have this structure. The individual product pages are unlikely to attract external links and the majority of the content may be imported from a manufacturer database