Yahoo trying new search interface
Technology Evangelist spotted that Yahoo is trying a new search interface at AllTheWeb. I love seeing this type of experimentation and am always looking for new ideas that we might be able to apply to site search. Google has a similar test area at searchmash.com. The Yahoo experiment has an ajax search box that shows [...]
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Searching for brides
We can't help you find a bride - but we can help brides find wedding favors, gifts and accessories. This week we announced three bridal sites that are using the SLI search: American Bridal, Island Wedding Shop and Fairy Tale Wedding Shop. Island and Fairy Tale Wedding shops are run by Cyber Island shops - [...]
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Amazon Related Searches
I noticed recently that Amazon has started showing Related Searches on their search page. I am a big fan of Related Searches. They offer a an easy, unobtrusive way of doing query refinement. This may be refining the query as "harry potter book 7" does in the example above, or offering tangential, but related queries [...]
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Tuning up site search
I spotted this presentation on tuning up site search by Chris Farnum from Enlighten at the IA Summit 2007 earlier today. It's great to see people talking about improving site search. I didn't hear the presentation - I've just seen the slide show but Chris seemed to have nicely covered off the benefits of improving [...]
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Eurekster gets some cash
Last week our sister company, Eurekster announced that they had received $5.5M of Venture Capital. SLI was one of the founders of Eurekster. We helped develop some of their initial technology and shared offices with them. They have been running without any serious input from us for a couple of years now and it's great [...]
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Search Engine Room
I've just been speaking at the Search Engine Room conference in Sydney. This is the first search marketing even I've been to in Australia. It was interesting to compare the Australian attitudes and knowledge to those I see in the US. There were a handful of familiar faces from SES and similar shows: Stephan Spencer [...]
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Aberdeen report on site search
The Aberdeen site search report was released recently and is available for free from their site. The report emphasized the value of a high quality site search, particularly for retailers because they see direct economic benefits of having a better site search: increased conversion rates increased average order vale increased customer satisfaction. It's great to [...]
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