What is the future of site search for ecommerce: Part 2

In the last two years there have been a series of mergers and acquisitions that have completely changed the landscape of search vendors. This only goes to re-enforce the point I made previously that search in retail is commoditized and reached a level at which innovation in functionality is left to smaller iterative improvements, and the future for search is to not as a stand alone service but as an integral component of a larger vision for ecommerce.

But how have all these Acquisitions played out and what can we expect from retail search in the [...]

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What is the future of site search for ecommerce

Search is pivotal in converting customers from browsers to buyers, but as site search functionality is becoming commoditised what future is there for search vendors in retail and [...]

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Climbing the eCommerce Property ladder

I start this blog with a summary of my latest thoughts around eCommerce platforms which I presented at eCommerce Expo recently. In this presentation I make the analogy between the journey a business takes when it comes to eCommerce platforms to that of a person navigating the property ladder. [...]

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