How Much Is Commerce Search Worth? Pre-Announcing Togalo

By now, I’m sure you’ve read all about Microsoft’s announcement of “Live Search Cash Back” - an all-new offering in the vertical search market of commerce a.k.a. “when people do on-line searches to find products they’re looking to buy.” Bill Gates has just been talking about it at Advance08.  You can watch some video of [...]

Why The Tellme Acquisition By Microsoft Matters

In case you missed the news, Microsoft has agreed to acquire Tellme for a rumoured c. $900M. Why did Microsoft pay almost a billion dollars for the company?
Well, there are a number of components that go into the valuation. However, the thing that’s really exciting about Tellme is what they’re doing in [...]

Like.com - Can You Find Stuff You Like?

Well, you’re almost bound to have checked out Riya’s new site - Like.com by now. So, I won’t bore you with a long introduction… essentially, Like.com is a new type of search engine. It lets you search images of consumer products, based on what they look like (photos), not text descriptions. So… what [...]