Mental notes to myself » Amazon http://livebookmark.net/journal web, money and etc. Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:41:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Alexa websearch powered by Google? http://livebookmark.net/journal/2005/07/25/alexa-websearch-powered-by-google/ http://livebookmark.net/journal/2005/07/25/alexa-websearch-powered-by-google/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:26:02 +0000 Harun Yayli http://livebookmark.net/journal/2005/07/25/alexa-websearch-powered-by-google/ I saw something very strange a few days ago.
Alexa is an Amazon company, offering stats about websites. And on their page if you’d like to search the web, the web search is powered by Google.
Also A9 an Amazon company offering websearch.
So why use Google, if they are both Amazon company. Isn’t A9 is a competition for Google (or vice versa)? Why support competition instead of your own company’s search engine?
Simply non-sense.
Maybe an AdSense revenue trick?

]]> http://livebookmark.net/journal/2005/07/25/alexa-websearch-powered-by-google/feed/ 0 Contextual Presentation Of Information About Related Orders During Browsing Of An Electronic Catalog http://livebookmark.net/journal/2005/07/14/contextual-presentation-of-information-about-related-orders-during-browsing-of-an-electronic-catalog/ http://livebookmark.net/journal/2005/07/14/contextual-presentation-of-information-about-related-orders-during-browsing-of-an-electronic-catalog/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:44:46 +0000 Harun Yayli http://livebookmark.net/journal/2005/07/14/contextual-presentation-of-information-about-related-orders-during-browsing-of-an-electronic-catalog/ An online store system, which may be implemented as a web site or another type of interactive system, presents context-sensitive information to customers about their prior orders during browsing of an electronic catalog of products. In one embodiment, when a customer accesses a detail page for a particular product, the detail page is supplemented with information, such as status information, about a related order placed by the customer. The related order may be an order for the product represented in the detail page or may be for a related product. Information about related orders may additionally or alternatively be added to other types of pages, such as product category pages and shopping cart pages. In one embodiment, a customer’s related order information is maintained in a cache during the customer’s browsing session, and the cache is updated in real time to reflect actions performed by the customer.

That means: When you are browsing a book at Amazon, it reminds you your previous orders.

This idea’s been lately patented by Amazon, after 4 years and 5 rejections…

link to patent

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