Mini Poll – Search vs Navigate

We’re currently running a mini poll on LinkedIn. When on a site, do you search or navigate more often?  Which do you do first?  Take the poll and see the results here www.tinyurl.com/8wyuvq.

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Focus focus focus?

I was reading Jacob Neilsen’s Alertbox article on Interaction Elasticity today. In the newsletter he mentions that shorter navigation paths are usually better. “4 easy clicks are more usable then 5 easy clicks, because the extra click is more work for users”.  This sounds obvious and it got me thinking about how it relates to […]

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Interview with Alan Lim from Purely Gadgets

Yesterday we released an interview with Alan Lim from Purely Gadgets on the ecommerce podcast. Alan is one of our UK based customers and is our first non US guest on this podcast. Alan is from Singapore, has an office in London and one in Hong Kong (from where he sources a lot of their product […]

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Cyber Monday bigger than Black Friday online.

I was just looking at the data from our search logs and noticed that we served 20% more queries on behalf of our customers on Cyber Monday than we did on Black Friday. To be clear these are search and navigation queries – primarily on ecommerce sites. Black Friday is the biggest retail day for bricks […]

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