This is a question that we are very interested in here at SLI. Most of our customers are retailers. Through our services we are talking to these people every day. Our relationship with them feels more like it is more than just a business relationship. Their passion infects us and we really want them to […]
Yesterday we announced that WEBS has implemented our Learning Search to power the site search on its all-things knitting ecommerce site Yarn.com. Aside from strengthening its online brand visibility and improving the customer experience, WEBS has discovered another benefit to an effective site search solution – more productive employees. According to owner Steve Elkins, employees […]
Omniture announced yesterday that they are going to acquire certain assets in our competitor Mercado. The deal needs the approval of the Israeli government and that may not happen until the end of the year. In the meantime Mercado’s customers are in limbo from a support point of view. Most of the technical staff in […]
Today we announced that Jelly Belly are using SLI’s Learning search and Site Champion. We’ve also released an interview with Jason Marrone, Jelly Belly’s e-commerce marketing manager. The interview was fun and informative. It made me hungry talking about all their candy. It was really interesting to hear about one of their most successful promotions that […]
Have you read the news today? If you have, you couldn’t ignore the many stories related to the current economic conditions and questions about what it means for business. According to a recent story by Kevin Ryan at Search Engine Watch, everyone wants to know what the economic meltdown means for advertising and marketing dollars, […]
There are numerous rumors going round about the demise of one of our competitors, Mercado Software. They have a decent reputation but appear to be having severe cashflow problems. I would like to make an offer to any Mercado customers that are concerned about how this may impact the fast approaching holiday season. At SLI […]
If this week it seems that SLI Systems is everywhere that’s because its our busiest week of the year. Here are some of the various events that we are visiting this week; Enterprise Search Summit West September 23 – 25 San Jose, CA Booth #235 ExactTarget Connections ’08 User Conference September 23 – 25 Indianapolis, […]
SLI will be at the Shop.org Annual Summit next week (September 15 – 17) in Las Vegas, NV. We are a silver sponsor so you will see our name on the information kiosks around the exhibit hall. The kiosks will help you find your way around the conference. Drop by booth #107 to find out […]
I saw an article by John Ferrara discussing how Alan Turing’s ideas apply to search (thanks to Daniel Tunkelang from Endeca for pointing this out on his blog). John observed that people often expect search engines to understand them in the same way that a person would. While search engines aren’t able to do this, one […]
We have just released an interview with Daniel Pfeffer from Lighting by Gregory. They are one of the oldest lighting companies in Manhattan with over 150,000 products. Maintaining accurate information for this many products creates lots of headaches. Listen to Daniel talk this and issues with running a fast growing website.