I see Google has finally put the Google Suggest functionality on their home page. I’m a big fan of this feature and use it all the time in their toolbar. We’re recently started offering our equivalent functionality (that we call Auto Complete) to all of our site search customers. This is being well received – […]
I saw this question posed on Marchiahoo’s blog and I felt it deserved a response. My first response – is that if you’re going to ask questions on your blog then you should allow comments! The author has being reading Steven Krug’s book “Don’t Make Me Think” and was questioning his assertion that site search was […]
Is site search the new navigation? DMV.org, an ad-driven independent Web portal known as the “Unofficial Guide to the DMV,” certainly thinks so. We announced earlier this week that DMV.org is using Learning Search to improve site search and reduce reliance on navigational tools. “More and more people depend on search alone, so we plan […]
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This week SLI Systems will be in Washington DC exhibiting at the eTail East conference. If you are at the conference and would like to see a demonstration of our Site Search, Site Navigation, or User-Generated SEO products please see us at booth #55.
Aaron Wall spotted Google showing Related Searches below search results. This is his image. I really like these – we’ve been generating them for almost a decade. They made their first appearance on the original snap.com (which later became NBCi.com) using our GlobalBrain technology. We now show them on most of our customer’s site searches. […]
This week we posted another interview with Shirley Tan from American Bridal. Hear how Shirley started the American Bridal 14 years ago as a mail order catalog and has grown it significantly over the years. One of their secrets is their unique product collection which Shirley puts a lot of effort into. She has managed […]
Last week we announced that Lighting by Gregory, one of the largest lighting and ceiling fan distributors in the U.S., has seen some impressive results from using our Learning Search site search and Site Champion user-generated SEO solutions. In fact, they’ve seen a 40% increase in their online conversion rate since deploying our technology. With […]
We’ve recently posted two more interviews on the Ecommerce Podcast site: One with Patrick Colletta of PC Universe and one with Raj Lahoti of Online Guru. PC Universe are an online store with a large catalog (tens of thousands of products). This brings their own set of challenges. Patrick gives us a background on the […]
This week SLI Systems will be visiting Miami, FL and Boston, MA as the last two cities in the ExactTarget Route 1 to 1 seminar series. For more information on this event and to register visit the Route 1 to 1 site.