We are hugely happy to extend our felicitations to Bookline.hu, Hungary’s largest online bookstore and the first user of the Scarab Platform, for winning the 2009 Online Business of the Year Award. The award is presented each year, judged on the criteria of the most innovative and viable online business model, the best graphical design and design harmony between online and offline presentations of the brand, and best user-experience.

Scarab Research today announced the signing of an agreement with 3NF Corporation, Tokyo, for distribution of its personalized product recommendation system, the Scarab Platform, in Japan. 3NF’s extensive experience with the Japanese corporate technology market opens up new opportunities for Scarab Research to offer its products and services to business customers in Japan. The Scarab Platform is a cutting edge enterprise-grade system offering high-quality real time product recommendations for the storefronts of online retailers through the application of the latest scientific advances and user-driven collaborative filtering methods.

Gladly accepting the kind invitation of the Budapest New Technology Meetup, Scarab Research got to meet with the crème de la crème of Hungarian technologists at the July meeting of the club.