Comments on: Anatomy of the Long Tail /anatomy-of-the-long-tail/ Bring your own data Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:05:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Herb Jones /anatomy-of-the-long-tail/#comment-61700 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:05:47 +0000 /?p=401#comment-61700 Good article…we see many long tail searches and conversion on many of those terms is usually higher.

Facebook’s open graph protocol has real potential to impact the way we search and choose specific items like movies and music. By passing through that all powerful “recommended or liked by a friend” information we get to see not only what items look interesting to us, we get to see what items our friends “liked”. The same goes for Google’s plus one.

]]> By: Adrian McCluskey /anatomy-of-the-long-tail/#comment-61430 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:11:41 +0000 /?p=401#comment-61430 Morgan says:
“The internet definitely plays a huge role in the success of the long tail phenomenon. The only gripe I have with Chris is that he used absolute numbers to come up with the figures for this study. I believe that the head and tail would be better off being defined as a percentage.”

I agree. Using a percentage makes the head and tail area a little easier to grasp but the concept is still sound and it’s a facinating article for marketers. Thank you

]]> By: Morgan /anatomy-of-the-long-tail/#comment-60827 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:05:46 +0000 /?p=401#comment-60827 The internet definitely plays a huge role in the success of the long tail phenomenon. The only gripe I have with Chris is that he used absolute numbers to come up with the figures for this study. I believe that the head and tail would be better off being defined as a percentage.

my .02 cents.

]]> By: Rich K /anatomy-of-the-long-tail/#comment-60489 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:44:43 +0000 /?p=401#comment-60489 One thing to keep in mind is that sites like Amazon and Netflix make it easier to dig into the long tail with their recommendations. I’m not sure people are like sheep so much as not have the time it takes to find “long tail” music/movies on their own. By providing these recommendations based on a person’s previous selections, they make it easier to find music, movies, books, etc. that they probably would not have come across otherwise.

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