Why Our Love/Hate Relationship with Talk-to-Text is Quickly Turning to Love/Love
Are you like me? Have you come to rely on talk-to-text on your phone? I am one of those people who use the microphone button on my iPhone to dictate my texts and my searches. For the most part, my phone does pretty well at translating my voice into the written word. But like countless […]
Research Shows Voice Input is Overtaking Typing on Smartphones
Voice as a Computing Interface is exponentially faster than typing, it is easier than typing, and computers are finally intelligent enough to understand 95% of what is said… compared to just 70% in 2010. And people are using it more and more. Just as Responsive Web Design has become a necessity since more people search […]
EasyAsk – The Evolution of Mobile Commerce with Amazon-like Voice Search
EasyAsk Technologies is increasing its reach to retailers who need a stronger solution in the mobile commerce (mCommerce) space. EasyAsk’s genius search and merchandising technology is in lockstep with the current mobile, voice-enabled trend toward mCommerce. Share List
Lost in Shopping
With apologies to Sofia Coppola, sometimes trying to purchase an item in an unfamiliar environment can be a difficult challenge. Have you ever shopped at a new grocery store? All the items are in different aisles from your regular store. The labels over the aisles are different and may not make sense to you. And […]
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” – The Realities of eCommerce Search
Sometimes online shopping in 2015 is a flashback to 1969 when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sang the above titled song in their album ‘Let It Bleed’. You search for something to buy, but the website doesn’t seem to understand what you are asking for and delivers up stuff you didn’t want. You look at […]
You’re Betting Your eCommerce Business on . . . SOLR ??!!
What’s behind your eCommerce search box? You’re not going to like the answer As an eRetailer, one of the most critical functions on your website is your search box. This is where your shoppers go to find things they want to buy. The truth is that, deep down; you know it just doesn’t work very well. […]
What do keyword mCommerce Search & Dinosaurs have in common?
They’re both extinct. It’s a pretty good analogy, really. If we set the way-back machine to 2007, there was no mCommerce (eCommerce on a mobile device). Why? Because the mobile devices of the day were not designed to be the computer-in-a-pocket devices that we have today. The very best options in those days were […]
Tacoma Screw Products, an EasyAsk customer, nominated for Internet Retailer Excellence Award at IRCE 2015
Innovative and successful Tacoma Screw competes with W.W. Grainger and others in the B2B E-Commerce Player of the Year category June 4, 2015 – Burlington, MA – EasyAsk Technologies is pleased to congratulate Tacoma Screw Products on its nomination in the B2B E-Commerce Player of the Year Category at the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition […]
Internet Retailer Reveals Mobile Commerce Conversion Troubles
Guido Laures, the CTO of Spreadshirt, an e-retailer of print-on-demand apparel and accessories, recently published a revealing article in Internet Retailer on the struggles of e-retailers to convert on their mobile commerce sites and the lost potential revenue as a result. According to Mr. Laures, “Every year retailers are inundated with studies that herald mobile […]
Internet Retailer on Reading Shoppers Minds
Can your e-commerce search solution think and understand like a human? If so, your site turns into virtual sales associate, understanding clearly what customers want and closing the sale. Internet Retailer has published an article, Reading Shoppers Minds, which explores how e-commerce search solutions have become more human-like for e-retail and […]