Came the shopping mall. Not terribly fresh, but for those unaware of the rich research that has occurred to shape today's brick and mortar shopping experience, check out this B&A interview with Paco Underhill. For more on physical retail trends, check out Field Notes.

Shout out stompers!

The conversion funnel explorer that I'm demoing in the talk is available at in the lab.

About Search @ MSFT

• About MSFT Search Technology: SearchEngineWatch covers the neural net ranker.
• NYTimes interviews Steve Berkowitz: "Sometimes the connections to the engine room aren't there."

Cool features at MSN/Live Search:

• Super cool ajax image search
• 2005 Operator release: filetype, contains, etc.
• 2006 Operator release: Macros and LinkFromDomain. See also my post on "diggRank".
• Using linkfromdomain and inUrl: digged youtube videos in RSS format.

Listen here...Segment 1 - Looking at MSN's Live Search engine