Ken Cassar
Ken Cassar
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Web users are conducting more searches not because they can't find what they're looking for, but because search as a utility has become deeply ingrained into people's everyday lives.
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The growth of search and the role of search in usage of the Internet has been astounding. When you look at search penetration, it's near 80 percent. The number of searches each person generates, it's high. It would be intuitive to say the numbers can't get any bigger than they are, but they've continued nonetheless.
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E-commerce last year, revenues totaled about $3 billion, ... We anticipate they'll total about $7 billion in 1998. And the forecast for 2002 is $41.1 billion.
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These two sites offer the same features and functionalities.
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It's not clear-cut if it's really less costly.
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It's clear that this event will shake up the search/portal space.
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Skeptical retailers eyeing fluctuations in the financial market and the increasing failure rates of Internet companies are often blind to the most important issue - specifically, the degree to which their online efforts will affect their off-line business. Online consumers are a very powerful audience and tend to be channel-agnostic. And as consumers increase their use of the Internet, the opportunity for the Web to influence their online and off-line shopping behavior grows. Simply put, businesses must integrate across channels.
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What Sears is trying to do with appliances makes sense. It may not sell a lot of refrigerators for them, but it will help them qualify and educate their customers.
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While the numbers are fairly insignificant right now, ... they keep doubling year over year?Online sales will surpass catalog sales within 10 years.
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The top players have held their respective positions for the past six months, demonstrating the benefits of incumbency in the search arena.
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The top five players have held their respective positions for the past six months, demonstrating the benefits of incumbency in the search arena.
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...As consumers increase their use of the Internet, the opportunity for the Web to influence their online and off-line shopping behavior grows. Simply put, businesses must integrate across channels.
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These startups are really just a virtual shelf. You have to wonder about their value. They don't even have a customer base.
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My guess is that Amazon has seen the writing on the wall, ... They think they'll get slammed next week when they release their quarterly report and they're trying to cut their losses by telling the Street they're taking measures to control costs.