No doubt you’ve heard the news. Google’s stock is falling because people are not clicking on their vaunted text ads. Wall Street seems a bit confused about why people are clicking less on Google’s ads. This quote from the FT captures the confusion: Mark Mahaney, Citigroup analyst, said the decline could be caused by Google’s [...]
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What Does Wall Street Think of Google and Their User Experience
February 28th, 2008 · Comments Off · Information Markets, Usability
Tags:Brin·Citigroup·Google·internet audience·Mark Mahaney·online applications·search result page·search results·social networking sites·United States·Wall Street
Snooth Redux
December 17th, 2007 · Comments Off · Information Design, Wine Markets
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, [...]
Tags:search results
Interview with Mona Lori, Principle, OutOfPocket.com
August 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Healthcare Markets, Interviews
In the healthcare services market change comes slowly. An incredible amount of innovative thinking, and technical blood, sweat and tears, have been put into improving our healthcare experience over the past two decades, yet in many ways very little has changed. Still, after all these years, getting accurate prices for basic procedures is like climbing [...]
Tags:Forrester Research·health care services·health care social networking·Health insurance·healthcare·healthcare experience·healthcare market·healthcare marketplace·healthcare plan·healthcare purchasing decisions·healthcare services·healthcare website·high-deductible insurance plan·high-value targeted advertising space·insurance·insurance plans·Less desirable search results·market driven solution·Mona Lori·Mount Everest·MRI·online communities·overall solution·routine health care services·search results·social networking·social-networking site·United States·universal healthcare
Indeed, Usability Works
March 3rd, 2007 · 7 Comments · Other Markets
One of the great things about the internet is that it brings down the cost of information distribution (among a couple other things), and many businesses can be based on that simple fact alone. For example, in today’s NYTimes there is an article describing sites that allow users to get a better idea of what [...]
Public Prediction Markets Heuristic Review: Yahoo’s Tech Buzz Game
May 28th, 2006 · Comments Off · Prediction Markets
Who Is … Yahoo’s Tech Buzz Game, run by Yahoo Research, co-sponsored by O’Reilly Media, and based on NewsFutures technology, is a “fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends.” Stock prices adjust based on trader buying or selling of the stock, and then the price is periodically re-aligned with its Buzz Score, which [...]
Tags:a lot of tools·API·David Pennock·Google·high-tech products·hot search term·Java·Linux·NewsFutures technology·O'Reilly·online application development·Online Music Services·pre-defined search terms·Public Prediction·search·Search engine·search frequency·search results·search term·search terms·usable site·Yahoo
Public Prediction Markets Heuristic Review: Smarkets
May 15th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Prediction Markets
Who Is … As the help section says: “Smarkets was created by Steve Odom as an experimental prediction market.” Traders can buy or “short” stock in Amazon products, and prices are determined by their Amazon sales rank. (Aside. I fully realize that shorting a contract on Smarkets, like on HSX, is not shorting in any [...]
Tags:Amazon·API·clever site·given product·hot product·particular products·search results·Steve Odom·USD
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