Visual search for faster, accurate results, BUSINESS TIMES

From: Business Times (Malaysia) | Date: March 4, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

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WHAT has the lack of visual search engines got to do with the potential US$13 billion (US$1 = RM3.80) business loss that online companies worldwide reportedly suffered last year? Plenty, according to Mat Malladi who said that this was due to frustrated customers not finding what they were looking for and adding that the research firm Creative Good had said that 2.5 million e-merchants lost US$13 billion due to failed searches last year. Malladi, the chief executive officer (CEO) of eVision, the company that is based in Oakbrook Terrace, (a suburb of Chicago), Illinois, which ...

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