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Database example #1   Epionions.com http://www.epinions.com/
Commercial Application

 


Epionions.com
is an online "forum" for the consumers to express their opinions about what they had bought. The selling point for this site is the potential customers for particular products can obtain enough "fair and balanced" information from other's mouths before they buy their desired products, ranging from books, clothing, electronics to car and even bank loans. Its interface is quite user-friendly and straight-forward. Once you get to its portal page, all you need to do is either to type your keywords in the field provided and choose a relative category, or directly click the links on the top or at the left to narrow down what you want to search. Don't miss out the ratings from other customers for particular products and the ratings for the popular online stores, those information makes this site famous and useful. If you are a serious shopper or you love to shop online, this site can give you a good insight and knowledge on both your desired stuff and the shops you gonna pay. Epinions.com considerately categorizes the items in terms of price, product functions and brands that makes the searching much more easier. If you do not trust the online stores out there or you have a very tight budget for what you intend to buy, go there and read some "constructive" opinions from "victims" which can greatly reduce your chance of buying the wrong things or being hoaxed by the unscrupulous online stores. Last but not least, its "compare" function is also very nice to compare two or more items you are interested in. The Epinions.com uses ASPs to access its back-end database.

 

Database example #2   National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov
Information Application

 


The National Cancer Institute
(NCI), established in 1937, is the Federal government's principal agency for cancer research and one of eight agencies that compose the Public Health Service (PHS) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The institute mainly coordinates the National Cancer Program which conducts and supports cancer research, training, cancer information such as the cause, diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation and treatment of different kinds of cancer. To those unfortunate patients suffered with cancer, this web site is a vital, credible information center for them and their families to know more about their enemy, cancer. Since most of the medical terms are nothing but a foreign language to most of the people, this site is kindly enough to set up a dictionary page for those who need to know them. It is just one of the evidence that they are there for help! One of the database this site has offered is called "clinical trails", in which cancer patients can gather the life-saving information from cancer treatment, genetics, diagnosis, supportive care, screening, and prevention from its world's most comprehensive cancer clinical trials database as it claimed. On its clinical trails searching page, the patient can choose the cancer type, trail type and trail location to search for the "clinical facts" about that disease and even the contacts of the medical personnels who are specialized in that field.

 



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