Benefits of Semantic Natural Language Search for E-Commerce
BY EasyAsk CEO Craig Bassin How this paradigm shift will change Web and mobile e-commerce forever Advancement in communication and technology over the last two decades has been dramatic, and the way people consume information has evolved in parallel. Not long ago, people turned to libraries, dictionaries, reference journals, books, phone books and printed newspapers […]
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 […]
Oracle Buys Endeca – Another E-Commerce Software Company to Vanish?
Endeca goes to Oracle. Now that is big news. I’ve read nine articles analyzing the acquisition and they all paint the same picture: good news for Oracle’s BI solutions; an enhanced Oracle BI architecture with Endeca’s ability to integrate unstructured data; new functionality for Oracle BI in analyzing data from Hadoop. The consensus is clear: […]