Here's an amusing story about a retailer asking a blogger to remove himself from Google because the blogger was ranking higher than him. He goes as far as threatening him with lawyers. It demonstrates the low level of understanding some people have of how search engines operate. Dean Hunt (the blogger) is being very kind [...]
Last month the guys in our NZ office have participated in Movember. This is essentially an excuse to grow facial hair. What does this have to do with search? Almost nothing, except these mustachioed faces belong to men that live and breath search (at least while they're at work).
It's been a couple of weeks since my last blog. I apologize to my regular readers, both of you. Last week we announced another customer - Organize-It. Our team has really enjoyed working with Nick. We love having them as a customer.
I use the Google toolbar and I love it. The main thing I use it for is to easily search our intranet - using the feature that lets you add buttons to access any search you want. Today the toolbar upgraded itself - which is OK. But what I thought was very aggressive (and a [...]
This week we launched our Learning Navigation service. This is a natural extension to our Learning Search service. Learning Navigation makes it easier for your visitors to find what they're looking for while they're navigating your site because it brings the popular products to the top at all stages of the navigation. We've designed the [...]
This is a busy time of the year for us. We're busy because our customers are busy preparing for their busy time - the holidays. It's busy, busy busy. Last year we saw that on average, the number of site search queries in the holidays was over 2.5 times higher than it was in September. [...]
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I noticed a couple of our customers in the news this week. PC Universe won a web award. We power their search and one of our partners, Left Click Labs, has recently helped them redesign their site. Well done to Tom, Patrick and the team at PC Universe. I also saw Chiasso featured in this [...]
What type of searching is more common: web search (using Google, Yahoo, et al) or searching within a site? The number of web searches done daily is approximately 200 million. Google gets about half of those about 90 million. At SLI we serve site search for only a tiny fraction of all web sites but [...]
Danny Sullivan announced that he was leaving search engine watch this week. The main reason was that Incisive Media, the owner weren't letting him share in the wealth he was creating for them. This is a major blow for Incisive because, although Danny has built up a great team he is the soul of Search [...]
Last week we announced our 5th birthday. Looking back, the five years seems to have gone very fast but it is a milestone we are proud to have reached. SLI was born out of the ashes of Globalbrain which had been sold to the then internet giant, NBCi. At it's peak NBCi had been the [...]
