Rate-It Engine

Green Team TechnologiesCS 410 Spring 2007

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Who can repair the plumbing in your 50-year old house?

Where do you get your hair cut? Who should press your suit for the

big interview? Who would you trust to perform

surgery on Fido? Where should you eat?

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1. Compettion is the yellow pages and better buisness bureau2. This is search engine stuff

Current service industry review websites do not provide a mechanism for reviews to be filtered based on user preference.

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To provide an easy way for content creators to add a review engine specifically targeting services to their website.

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Our project is this engine that can be used. Sell this engine, not a websiteSearch engine is very imortant since their is so much information on the internet

Provide a mechanism for services and their associated reviews to be rated independently by users

Recommend compatible services to user based on stated preferences and history of ratings

License ratings engine to content creators for rapid development of websites

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Independant user can or can not be reliableWhat are the objectives of the review engine?Filtering has been mentained, but not as an objectiveThese are the objective to achieve the goal slideReview collection, rating and reviews, search and filteringExplain the complexity of the objectives. Is this a good reson we picked restauarnts??How do you populate data into search engine?

One-click up/down voting of services and reviews by any registered user

User can view recommended services based on their preferences and personal ratings

Anyone can read reviews Registered users can write reviews

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Could not be read, should have been a full page print out of this slide

Rate It Engine ready to run on specified webserver/database combination

Customizable using industry standards to match existing look and feel of current website

Support contract to help with installation and use of engine

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Database ServerDatabase

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Internet

Users

Web Pages

Web Server

Firewall

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Licensing Fee• $749 – Per CPU

Annual Support Contract• $99 – Per CPU

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She would have liked to see more information

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Change customer to how many possible people will be interestedExpected revenue from licensing the engine itself

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Web Hosting Service for $5.95 per monthhttp://www.hostmonster.com/

Domain Name registration for $8.95 per yearhttp://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp

Web Developers/ Web Masters• Salary survey done in Norfolk, VA (zip code

23501)• Median Salary = $65,144http://salary.hotjobs.com/

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ODU server, so no start up cost

210,080,067 Americans with internet accesshttp://www.internetworldstats.com/stats2.htm

114.7% Growth from 2000 – 2007http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

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Show growth with a line graph

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Restaurant Review Site• Industry is huge

Estimated Revenue of $537 billion in 2007• Large base for restaurant reviews

935,000+ Restaurants in US• Restaurants have loyal patrons willing to

write reviews/discuss experiences• High incidence of repeat business

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http://www.restaurant.org/aboutus/faqs.cfm

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Do we want to get away from the restaurant example all together?Why are we using the restaurant industry. Need data for why we made this choice. Need reason for choosing this. If we have this data move it up

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Source: Energy Information Administration, 1993 & 2001 Residential Energy Consumption Surveys. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/cookingtrends/cooking.html

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Does not believe us since bar goes all the way to the top. Make scale at 100 percent.

The average employed American works a 46-hour work week.http://www.libraryspot.com/know/workweek.htm

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Every data chart has a different way of presenting data

Daily travel in US totals four trillion miles

14,500 annual miles per person 2.6 billion trips of 50 miles or more

http://www.bts.gov/publications/highlights_of_the_2001_national_household_travel_survey/pdf/entire.pdf

These people need to know where to eat

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Lots of questions about what is traveling. Maybe a better job with the title.Overnight traveling. Staying in a hotel. More concrete data

44% of all adults dine-out daily http://www.aarp.org/health/staying_healthy/eating/a2004-09-16-eatingout.html

20% of all meals prepared in a commercial settinghttp://www.restaurant.org/rusa/magArticle.cfm?ArticleID=138

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20% of all meals ARE prepared.44 percent of how many people. Pie chart might be better. 44 percent of what?? What is a comerical setting?

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They are really not our customers. But we need then for how much we make in advertisingCustomers are the advertisers.Maybe reword title

Provide complete view of restaurants• Objective factual restaurant profile

Location Genre Price

• Subjective consumer reviews Provide targeted advertising

• Advertising to the correct consumer Encourage community among users

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Reword "Objective factual"Big plus is targeted advertising, maybe be expandedWhat does Encourage community among users mean?

Yellow pages Word of mouth Traditional Internet Review Sites

• Need to sift through data• Restaurants provide biased reviews

Driving around town• Expensive• Inefficient• “Judging book by its cover”

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Needs to come earlier. When she commented about yellow pages is our competition.Finnally heard project name

The Yellow Pages do NOT tell you: • If the food is good • If the staff is friendly • If the prices are reasonable • Even if the restaurant is in your immediate

area (If you are out of town)

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Another competition matrix for how people find or rate any type of service organizationAnother competion of just engine valueSome things in the competion matrix that are not in the objectives

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Should be some risks in the red at the begining

Rate It! Review Engine will enable website owners to quickly put in place a functional reviewing mechanism that encourages user participation and intelligently steers users towards compatible services.

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http://www.scarboro.info/dining.htm http://www.libraryspot.com/know/workweek.htm http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/cookingtrends/

cooking.html http://www.bts.gov/publications/highlights_of_the_

2001_national_household_travel_survey/pdf/entire.pdf

http://www.aarp.org/health/staying_healthy/eating/a2004-09-16-eatingout.html

http://www.restaurant.org/rusa/magArticle.cfm?ArticleID=138

http://www.restaurant.org/aboutus/faqs.cfm

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http://www.internetworldstats.com/ http://www.hostmonster.com/ http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp http://salary.hotjobs.com/ http://www.census.gov/population/www/

popclockus.html http://www.wsworkshop.com/money/ad-

revenue-models.html http://digitalenterprise.org/models/

models.html

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