Posts filed under “Couponlooker”
Big Release Week
Last week was a big one at Judy’s Book from a release perspective. We launched a new home page (existing members will have to sign out and clear cookies to see it), put more local offers in the system, and pushed out a host of bug fixes. There were a couple of cool improvements that [...]
I need to spend more time on LinkedIn
I came across a cool thread on LinkedIn Answers via Powerset’s Blog. In it, the COO of LinkedIn asked the following question: “If you could build the perfect search engine, what would it do?” little fockers move The answers are pretty interesting and the themes that crop up are around context, intent and some interesting [...]
“I love it when a plan comes together”
Ok, sorry, couldn’t resist the A-Team quote. I just got an email from Casey, one of our developers, who said: Couponlooker saved me 10% at Godaddy.com <eom> That’s the kind of email you love to get. unstoppable filmography
Couponlooker Search Improvements
On Thursday we released a number of couponlooker search improvements. You can now use quotes around phrases to get an exact match and use the ‘+’ and ‘-’ operators to require or exclude specific terms. In addition, multi-word query performance has been improved as well. Response overall has been very encouraging so far and we’re [...]
Couponlooker Improvements – More Coupon Codes and Better Merchant Grouping
Last week, we rolled out some small tweaks to Couponlooker that should make it even better for finding online coupon codes. Fewer sale announcements, more coupon codes: We now work harder to make sure that it’s easier to find actual codes that you can use at checkout rather than just links that you have to [...]
Release Day Rocks
I love the stress associated with the day of a big release. You’re running around trying to sort out last minute issues, getting bugs ironed out, making sure your data is in the right place and your marketing team is anxiously waiting for the site to be live so they can start their work. It’s [...]
User Engagement – Measuring the right things
When you’re evaluating whether or not your site is meeting its user engagement goals, it’s important to look at the right metrics. What’s right for a social network is not right for a search engine. By the way, if you’re not measuring things like visits, page views/visit, time on site, etc you should start immediately. [...]
Couponlooker Improvements
We released some significant new functionality on couponlooker today. (We also put out some new features on Judy’s Book which I’m really excited about but more on that tomorrow.) Kurt and Dave (Ops and Test) deserve a special thank you for great work in helping us iron out the kinks in this release and making [...]
If you're not searching for web pages, Google Custom Search can't help you
Alex Iskold has a great post on Read/Write Web about Google’s Custom Search Engine and how it shifts the value in vertical search from infrastructure such as crawling and search relevance to UI and site selection. I completely agree that Google CSE is a net positive for the vertical search space. However, it’s important to [...]