From Snooth …
While I’m a fan of what Snooth is trying to do, these little oddities drive me nuts.
First, “What do I do next?” is not a meaningful question for a user. The link is intended for people who don’t know what they can do on Snooth, so perhaps the question should be formulated [...]
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From the NYTimes we read this:
The researchers scanned the brains of 21 volunteer wine novices as they administered tiny tastes of wine, measuring sensations in the medial orbitofrontal cortex, the part of the brain where flavor responses apparently register. The subjects were told only the price of the wines. Without their knowledge, they tasted one [...]
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From the FT we learn: Amazon to enter US wine market
At this point, one has to ask, what won’t Amazon sell?
Best quote of the story is here:
Chris Adams, an executive at Sherry-Lehmann, a leading New York wine retailer, welcomed Amazon’s interest, saying it lent support to the view that states would ease restrictions. [...]
In the never ending quest for good, cheap wine, we have some new entrants into the field (hat tip to AltSearchEngine) that seem to be promising.
We’ve already talked about Snooth and how they seem to be headed in the right direction, but ablegrape and Vinquire have some potent offerings.
Vinquire tries to bridge the gap between [...]
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It may be an often overlooked (if unremarkable) fact that search engines must conform to the properties of the thing that is being searched for.
Searching for a web page is different from searching for an airline flight, is different from searching for a book, is different from searching for a bottle of wine. The [...]
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It’s nice to know that sometimes you get listened to … or if not listened to, at least that you were onto a good idea.
I’m referring to Snooth of course, and their recently added functionality that allows you to sort search results by Quality Price Ratio.
For those of you who were paying attention, doesn’t Quality [...]
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Wine is a difficult thing to buy online. This may seem like an absurd thing to say, what with the profusion of wine blogs and wine focused sites, but I know it to be true for me, and I fear that I am a typical wine buyer.
What is not difficult to do online is [...]
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It’s not often that I repost something, but I recently discovered that this post was missing from my site! I decided to repost it since it’s one of my favorites. My apologies if you’ve read it before. Other wine related posts can be found in the wine markets category. ~alex
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Finding that cheap bottle of delicious red is something of a miniature holy grail for the urban professional. Pinot, Syrah, Merlot. Who cares!?! As long as it cost less than $10 and tastes like $200.
Faithful readers of this blog (all two of you … but at least you’re in good company) are [...]
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