We do a lot of work on our site without a lot of talking, as demonstrated by this blog, but I thought I'd highlight a few recent changes we've made and let you know that we're moving "stuff" around.   We're changing what we show you and in general just trying out a lot of different approaches to improve our experience for you our highly valued audience.

We do this all the time; minor changes to our pages, our content and our presentation occur almost every week. For presentation and page structure we do it weekly during our code release, for the content itself, we make changes to the index results near-daily and update how it gets organized a few times a month. The result is an ever changing eco-system of search results and pages that should you all find the best of the b2b web however you look for it and whatever your goal and role may be...

We'll put together a few posts to talk specifics about our product research, buy and company profile pages; honestly right now they might still need a little explaining as we move closer and further from the most intuitive version we can think of. The goal is of course for these pages to be clear and speak for themselves, but we have so much information at times it can be like drinking from a fire hose!

At the highest levels what you will see is that we have started to break apart our monolithic zibb.com and organize all the supplier/directory style data into our 26 industries organized by country. An example of that would be a supplier drill down page such as this:
http://manufacturing.zibb.com/suppliers/Pallets+and+Palletizers/us/25798761

You'll notice that this gives you a very different view/experience from just searching for pallet suppliers via regular search.  This is intentional, we assure you.

Next up?  We need to simplify the presentation and add in some more whitespace.  Readability and usability could use a spruce up around all the data we've revealed.  Got an idea?  Let us know what you'd like to see/or not like to see.  We read all the feedback and do our best to incorporate all your great ideas directly into Zibb.