Personalization

“Image is Everything” with Visual Search

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

We’ve all heard the clichés about pictures and images through various commercials, songs, and stories. “Image is everything”, “Picture perfect”, “Every picture tells a story”, and “A picture is worth a thousand words” are some of the more common clichés we all know and love. In today’s fast-paced Internet world, the visual representation of [...]

Hate “.com”? How About a New, Totally Branded Domain?

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Tired of .com, .org, and .net? .biz or .mobi not doing it for you?
“Let a thousand domains flower …”

For 6 figures apiece.
As reported in today’s NY Times, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) announced yesterday in Paris that it would soon allow companies, organizations, or countries to use new suffixes in their [...]

Are We Too Excited About Personalization?

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

The good thing about these conferences, including Search Engine Strategies in Chicago this week, is that they put some issues in perspective.
In other words, there has been a big buzz about personalization on Google this year. Any change is going to have its pros and cons. So why not make search more relevant to a user [...]