Tag: search

October 22, 2020

Amazon is set to launch a raft of new machine-learning-powered search bar features which it expects will drive more than $8 billion in extra sales. According to leaked internal documents seen by Business Insider, Amazon is investing heavily in becoming […]

March 6, 2019

LAS VEGAS — At Shoptalk, several players — retailers like American Eagle, social media companies like Pinterest and tech juggernauts like Google — have all been working to refine the starting point of the online shopping journey: search. Search is […]

April 30, 2018

Voice-enabled technology was the talk of the show at CES this year, with Google and Amazon in a near arms race to own the market. It seems as though voice assistants are everywhere, from the car and the home to […]

March 20, 2018

Google has been selling search ads to retailers for a long time, and more recently has been forging deeper partnerships as it tries to fulfill its own shopping ambitions. For example, late last year, Google teamed with both Walmart and […]

December 28, 2017

Amazon’s dominance in retail product search is a key feature of a strategy meant to leave ever-fewer reasons for consumers to shop online anywhere but within Amazon’s ecosystem. As more consumers favor other search engines, retailers that aren’t Amazon could […]

March 4, 2016

When it comes to cold and flu remedies in their own search results, big e-retailers say ‘promote thyself.’ Private-label products outperform name brands for some of the largest retailers’ web search results in the cough, cold and allergy products category […]