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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.
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 […]
SES will be in San Jose, CA this week (August 18 – 22). Since this is a local event for us (only 15 minutes) from our office here in Cupertino its a great opportunity to meet our team – most of our local staff will attend during the 4 day event.
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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.