Today we announced that we have an expanded partner program that includes a broad range of online marketing, ecommerce platform, analytics and ratings & reviews solutions providers. Our partner program allows online retailers to further integrate industry-leading products and services with SLI’s hosted search solution… read more
This week we're exhibiting at the Internet Retailer Web Design '08 Conference in Miami, FL. The theme of the event is Designing Web Sites That Sizzle - and Sell. Visit us at booth 45 for a free demonstration on how our intelligent site search and navigation solutions can improve the design and success of your [...]
Next week we're exhibiting at the Channel Intelligence Retail Marketing Summit and the Shop.org Strategy and Innovation Forum (booth 203). These two online retail events are being held in Orlando, FL between Jan 22 and Jan 24 and are a great way to start your 2008. Please come and see us if you're at the [...]
I came across these ads the other day and thought I would share them. These ran back in 1999/2000 when Snap.com was promoting itself heavily on TV. They are focusing on the fact that Snap.com used GlobalBrain technology to power their search. Why is this relevant to site search? SLI Systems acquired the GlobalBrain technology [...]
I've been travelling for 4 out of the last 6 weeks and have neglected this blog for that time. I'm back now and should have a chance to do some posts soon. I've been to the ACCM show in Boston, the Internet Retailer Show in San Jose and I've been in holiday in Australia. The [...]
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Last week our sister company, Eurekster announced that they had received $5.5M of Venture Capital. SLI was one of the founders of Eurekster. We helped develop some of their initial technology and shared offices with them. They have been running without any serious input from us for a couple of years now and it's great [...]
The Aberdeen site search report was released recently and is available for free from their site. The report emphasized the value of a high quality site search, particularly for retailers because they see direct economic benefits of having a better site search: increased conversion rates increased average order vale increased customer satisfaction. It's great to [...]
Last year we tried to predict the Oscar winners by looking at who was searching for the nominees on our customers' sites. We only got one out of four right which is about what you'd expect with random guesses. Even though it didn't work very well, that hasn't stopped us from trying again. Here are [...]
I'm not happy with Yahoo. This morning Yahoo Messenger asked me if I would like to upgrade. I agreed because the old version used to crash lots. As part of the upgrade it installed the Yahoo toolbar, changed my homepage to Yahoo and changed the default search on IE7 to Yahoo. At no stage was [...]
The Google jet was reported to have been in New Zealand over the holidays. First they thought it was Larry and Sergey, now they think it was Eric Schmidt. The day after the story first appeared a reporter rang my brother, Grant and asked if they were in the country to buy Eurekster and if [...]
