SemanticWeb – EasyAsk Helps DollarDays Boost Sales and Web Presence
EasyAsk reports that their client DollarDays has marked several milestones this back-to-school season thanks in part to EasyAsk’s natural language semantic search. The article states, “In 11 short years, Dollar Days is celebrating several milestones, including doubling the number of SKUs it offers to more than 225,000 and the number of suppliers to more than […]
Gartner E-Commerce Search Best Practices Part 2
In my last blog post, I discussed the recent Gartner report “Best Practices in Strategically Combining Search, Content Analytics and E-Commerce.” One of the most important e-commerce search best practices that analysts Whit Andrews and Gene Alvarez emphasize is the ability to “Offer effective definition-matching and handling of ambiguity in Query terms.” Let’s take a […]
Internet Retailer: Tool retailer lets mobile shoppers speak their searches
Travers Tools Company implements a voice search feature into its mobile site. Consumers visiting the mobile site for Travers Tools Company Inc. searching for a specific drill bit now need only ask for it. The retailer recently launched an updated m-commerce site that enables consumers to speak their site searches. The service, from site search […]
EasyAsk Products – Excerpt from Sync-Up Interview on the Pulse Network
Sync-Up host Tyler Pyburn asks CEO Craig Bassin about EasyAsk’s products – EasyAsk eCommerce, Business Edition and Quiri. Share List
Voice Recognition & EasyAsk Quiri – Interview Excerpt on Pulse Network Sync-Up
EasyAsk CEO Craig Bassin talks about the differences between “voice-recognition” and “natural language search” – without understanding intent, you can’t accurately answer questions. Craig also notes that even Google is evolving from traditional keyword search. Share List
Google joining IBM, Apple and EasyAsk? Pigs fly! News at 11…
(Message from the CEO of EasyAsk, Craig Bassin) Looks like this is the beginning of the end for keyword search. You’ve probably seen a number of articles discussing Google’s shift to ‘semantic search’. Anyone understand what that REALLY means? First, the definition of ‘semantic search’ is an understanding of the ‘intent’, or meaning, of […]
EasyAsk Named Cool Vendor
It is always great to be considered Cool. But that is usually a personal distinction. Now Cool is an attribute given to software vendors such as EasyAsk. EasyAsk is proud to announce that we have been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the ‘Cool Vendors in Analytics and Business Intelligence, 2012’* report by […]
EasyAsk Brings Intelligence and Control Lucene/Solr Can’t Touch
Lucene/Solr is great for developers that enjoy tinkering with code as if it’s DNA and you’re working on the Captain America Super-Soldier Serum. But what if you don’t have the time or resources? What if you’re a company that cannot afford the manpower or hours needed to work on the open-source, Java-based search library? What […]
Siri-Cized Sites With Voice-Enabled Mobile Shopping? EasyAsk Customers Are Already There
The technological world seems to be making a shift. It began with those three days in February 2011, when IBM’s Watson computer competed on Jeopardy! (By the way, the natural language super-computer trounced the shows two biggest champions!) And culminated with Apple releasing Siri in their latest model of cell phone, the iPhone 4S on […]
Oracle Welcomes ATG and Endeca, Is Your Site Welcome Too?
You’re currently a customer of Endeca. Your site has been expensive to maintain, but it has worked well enough and you see no need to make a change. Recently however, changes have been made to the company who runs your search. Changes that could affect your relationship and your ability to do business. In October […]