The Bezos posted a message on the front door of Amazon this morning announcing that 19 of their non-book products would now ship in plain brown packaging. He also offered customers to upload videos to the Wrap Rage gallery.
This is being spun as both a green initative and a frustration-free customer experience. What exactly is [...]
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Brian McBride, the head of Amazon UK, gets a pleasant write-up at the Bookseller. He talks Kindle (coming soon) and about Amazon’s growth. His “Crunch? What crunch?” stance also gets some play at the timesonline.co.uk. I particularly liked his line that I put in the title of this post. What a [...]
Readwriteweb.com talks Amazon’s new standalone customer interface windowshop.com and ponders whether this is the year visual search makes its mark.
This is pretty passive browsing. The product categories are shown in vertical columns. When a user selects the book category, the description from the first book is read aloud (another reason to polish your copy). When [...]
Google’s secondary search feature got some attention in the New York Times. In turn it bubbled up at Techcrunch.
When I first saw this feature, I thought no big deal. Google is trying to keep searchers within their ecosystem for longer. Consumers looking for sites with bad internal search will benefit. You can bypass Canadiantire.ca’s stupid [...]