Posts tagged with 'Vertical Search'
Travel.co.uk is the latest entrant into the travel comparison market, having launched last week with a website that compares package holidays from some of the UK's top tour operators and travel agents.
We talked to Travel.co.uk's Marketing Manager Vicky Smith about the site...
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by Graham Charlton
18 July 2008 09:30am
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Travel.co.uk launched a package holiday comparison site last week, with a focus on providing a better user experience than existing competitors.
We have taken a look to see how it measures up...
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by Graham Charlton
15 July 2008 08:45am
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Careerjet is a job search engine that began as a bet by its founders, Thomas Busch and Jean-Benoit Andrieu.
It appears they have won - it now aggregates content from over 59,000 sites daily, and currently displays upwards of 21m vacancies.
We talked to Busch about the site's development and the semantic technology behind its search functions.
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by Graham Charlton
07 July 2008 08:30am
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Zoomii, launched last week, is a virtual bookstore that displays books from Amazon.
The site is built on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and uses the Amazon S3 hosted storage service. Buyers are directed to the online retail giant via an affiliate link.
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by Graham Charlton
25 June 2008 08:30am
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Polar Rose is a Swedish startup that has been developing facial recognition technology for image search since it launched at the end of 2006.
It has recently updated the look of its image search facility and made the image recognition plugin available for Internet Explorer users, so we've taken a look to see how effective it is...
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by Graham Charlton
09 June 2008 08:32am
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BookRabbit is a recently launched website which combines book retailing with some very useful social network features. Users can upload their bookshelves and compare these with other users.
We recently talked to MD Kieron Smith, who has previously managed e-commerce operations at both Waterstones and Game Group....
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by Graham Charlton
05 June 2008 08:45am
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Hungryhouse, a site that helps users find and order takeaways online, came away from a Dragons' Den appearance last year with the promise of a £100,000 investment.
Unfortunately, the deal didn't work out in the end and co-founders Shane Lake and Tony Charles have since received a £150,000 cash injection from elsewhere.
We talked to Shane about the Dragons' Den experience and where they see the site heading...
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by Graham Charlton
22 May 2008 09:18am
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Google has evolved its search results to include images, news, recent blog posts, videos and related links.
Let's build a quick to-do list to spruce up your site for Universal Search.
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by Andrew Girdwood
08 April 2008 09:00am
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There is plenty of room for improving the user experience of some of the UK's top travel websites, according to a new usability study.
Webcredible's Flights Online study looked at the flight search and booking process on 20 travel agent and airline websites.
The highest scoring website was Opodo with 67%, while Monarch came off worst on 38%. On average, travel agent websites were more usable than the airlines' sites.
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by Graham Charlton
02 April 2008 10:55am
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Property search engine Nestoria has launched a
new version
of its site that only displays maps from community geodata project OpenStreetMap (OSM).
The move – a sign of the growing potential of the open source mapping tool - means Nestoria users can view charts from OSM or existing provider Google when searching for properties in the UK and Spain.
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by Richard Maven
10 January 2008 14:45pm
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