Internet Retailer 2006
It's been a while since my last post. I've been busy travelling and trying to get on top of things since I got back. Part of my travels included the Internet Retailer show in Chicago. We went to this show last year and it was great. This year it was best show we've ever had. [...]
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On-line shopping, off-line buying
A recent Nieslen report concluded that shoppers are been driven to brick and mortar stores through search. This makes sense and many of our customers have said that they see the same thing happening: people will use their online store to decide what they want, then go to their local store to make the purchase. [...]
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Automated subscribed link feed for Google Co-op
We're currently performing an interesting experiment with Google Co-op. For one of our customers, NZ Holiday Houses, we have automatically created a subscribed link feed using the 1000 most popular search terms used on their site search. Each subscribed link shows the most popular pages on Holiday Houses for the given keyword. We have added [...]
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It's conference season
We're busy at SLI. We've got 6 events on over the next few weeks. We currently have two shows on at the same time: Annual Catalog Conference in Chicago and Internet World in London. Next week we've got the Novator Client Summit in Toronto, Canada and the South Florida Interactive Marketing Association networking cruise. Shortly [...]
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Google's Related Results
Google recently confirmed that they have made a change to their interface. For certain keywords they will show 3 related results inserted into the main results. For example, here's what you see when you search for tokenize. There have been reports of this for quite some time, so Google have obviously done a reasonable amount [...]
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