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New Features in Enterprise Edition Version 1.8

Magento Enterprise Edition Version 1.8 features a new module enabling merchants to increase customer retention through sending configurable, automated email reminders for abandoned shopping carts and wishlists. This enables merchants to target promotions and discounts to customers based on browsing activity.

Magento Enterprise Edition Version 1.8 also includes the addition of Solr as an alternative search engine to the standard Magento search, providing options to merchants for on-site search, and bringing enhancements to the speed, quality and relevancy of the search results provided to customers.

Additionally, Magento Enterprise Edition Version 1.8 includes performance enhancements through a Flat Sales module, as well as a module providing merchants the ability to archive orders after a configurable time-period. These modules are joined by a new feature that allows customer service representatives to assist customers in shopping through adding items to shopping carts, modifying wishlists, and more. All of this is coupled with many other enhancements and improvements to the existing functionality.
 

Rates for mobile search ads will exceed those for PC search ads thanks to the growing popularity of smartphones. Speaking in an analyst briefing, Google's engineering VP Vic Gundotra said the number of Google searches via mobile has increased fivefold over the past two years. Although he declined to predict when the crossover will take place, Gundotra says mobile ad rates have already risen "dramatically".

"Google has bet big on mobile," says Gundotra. "We hope and believe that there's a chance that cost per click of mobile ads could exceed desktop in the future.”

His comments echo those of CEO Eric Schmidt, who said last month that Google is now a "mobile first" company. The firm has stepped up its mobile efforts in recent months, acquiring mobile ad network AdMob and launching its first mobile hardware, the Nexus One smartphone. Gundotra says Google is optimising its full range of services, not just search, for mobile devices. He claims more than 50m people are now using Google Maps from their mobiles.

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