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Different prices in different countries: Adidas All Black jersey mess up The rugby world cup is coming to New Zealand next month and the biggest news story recently has been about the price of the All Black jersey. The jersey retails for NZ$220 in New Zealand (about $182 US dollars), but can be bought from […]
Our latest e-book – “The Big Book of Navigation Tips” – is now available for download from our website. We crafted the tips, taken from our many years of experience in guiding clients in search and navigation best practices, to help others in the industry understand how simple tweaks in navigation can significantly improve site […]
The 2011 Multichannel Merchant (MCM) Awards are out, and we now know which are the top 10 retail sites with the best search and navigation. It’s great to see such an influential industry publication drawing attention to sites with outstanding usability features where good search and navigation have a clear influence on higher click-throughs and […]
Today marks the 10th anniversary since SLI Systems was incorporated. So we’re celebrating. We’re having parties, giving gifts to our staff and I though I would take a little time to reflect on the past decade. In the beginning SLI started from the ashes of NBCi. We had sold our search company, GloblaBrain to NBCi […]
Earlier this week we had a problem at one of our data centers. The way it was successfully handled makes for an interesting story that I’d like to share. The outage We use multiple data centers in different locations. One of them lost power at two of their core switches which meant our servers in […]
Earlier this week we had a problem at one of our data centers. The way it was successfully handled makes for an interesting story that I’d like to share. The outage We use multiple data centers in different locations. One of them lost power at two of their core switches which meant our servers in […]
This month, we have a tip on boosting conversions from people who land on your product pages from searches via Google and other Internet search engines. The tip is to show a tailored product banner to these visitors. You have little control over how Internet search engines will rank your product pages so by showing […]
SLI Systems Blog, Guest Post Contributed by: Ed Kennedy, Business Development, Guidance Recently, I was listening to APM’s Marketplace Tech Report which highlighted how Google and Bing are now including social content such as Twitter and Facebook postings in natural search results. The report left me wondering how retailers can leverage social search to drive […]
I have just returned from the Internet Retailer Conference in San Diego. This is the biggest show that we attend and the one where we have the largest presence. Because the show is fairly close to our office we had a lot of people there – I counted 22. It was fantastic fun seeing current […]
Next week we’ll be exhibiting at the annual Retail World conference in Sydney, taking place June 27-29. If you’re attending the event, be sure to see us at stand #51, where we’ll be demonstrating our recently announced Conversion Optimizer A/B testing tool for site search, as well as the power our Learning Search site search, […]