All the articles of February, 2010

The Gifts Project leverages the social graph for real gift giving – http://bit.ly/cPSdV8 # RT @csestrategies: BizRank: BizRate Product Ranking in Search Results http://bit.ly/c1nhDU # Amazon.com Most Trusted Brand in U.S. http://bit.ly/c4HMAl # Good video demonstrating Google Shopper on Android – http://bit.ly/c0m34q (via @donkey20) # Vouchercloud – local discount vouchers delivered straight to the iPhone [...]

From the Google AdWords blog: You may recall that towards the end of 2009, we began testing a new feature called AdWords Comparison Ads. This feature lets users compare multiple relevant offers with ease, and it provides advertisers with a new sophisticated and flexible cost per lead format. Speed is of the essence for many [...]

The “web of things” Yahoo! recently talking about its search strategy, and how it can still innovate on search: People don’t care about finding 5 million pages about Roger Federer, they want the one page with all the relevant information. If someone is looking for Black Eyed Peas, we want to show users a bubble [...]

Why Google and Other Humans Don't Read Your Book Reviews http://bit.ly/bEoXdi # Windows Phone 7 looks impressive in terms of UI; hopefully can be connected on non-MS services (i.e:Flickr) – http://bit.ly/d6UpXe # "Facebook has passed [...] Google to become the top source for traffic to major portals like Yahoo and MSN" http://bit.ly/aX6Fig # RT @lihall: [...]

Last November, Google has started testing a new design for its search, highlighting relevant verticals in a left-hand side column (à-la Bing). It seems Google has updated its design in the recent days. At first glance, this update features some aesthetic changes towards a more bland design(typical of Google products). More interesting: the most relevant [...]

Browse Is The New Black http://bit.ly/cpstbc #userexperience # Two nice articles about when using faceted navigation or not: http://bit.ly/9BVU5P and http://bit.ly/8YdKaF #userexperience # Parisian love from Google during Superbowl TV ads – http://bit.ly/doRAiY # The recently launched Endeca blog already have some really inspiring articles about search – http://bit.ly/cx5XDa #userexperience # Damned… Right arm broken [...]

ChannelDollars recently published an analysis of the CSE market in 2010, basically highlighting the fact CSEs in 2010 must evolve or disappear, being stuck between Google / Bing, the starting points of the web, and Amazon / Walmart, the big retailers and their associated marketplaces. This analysis ended with: Put simply, to change the tide, [...]

What is Hunch? Hunch is the new startup of Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake; as such, it received quite a lot of attention when it was launched in March 2009 as a tool to help users make decisions. A kind of Yahoo! Answers-like, powered by the community, with an assistant approach: a series of questions that [...]

Upcoming "Google Store View" – is this serious? http://selnd.com/dalbTo # for non-US-based folks, TVgorge is awesome – all US TV shows in streaming – http://bit.ly/aBzjUv #

Two weeks ago… It had snowed quite a lot the day before, and the sky was perfect blue; it seemed a good time to take a half-day off and go snowboarding at Les 7 Laux, the closest ski resort where I live… Indeed, the first hours of the day were perfect ; A+ if I [...]