Search Engines > Search Engines: Shopping Search Engines
May. 21, 2008 at 1:30pm by Greg Sterling
Microsoft "Cashback" Program Aims To Lure Commercial Shoppers With Rebates, Marketers With CPA Model
Microsoft has invested heavily in Live Search and seen its search relevance and results improve but so far not its market share. The company believes its core search results are as good as what you'll find on Google or Yahoo. But its share is flat-to-declining, depending on which of the...
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May. 19, 2008 at 9:12am by Greg Sterling
NearbyNow About To Make Local (Product) Search Widely Available
There are a handful of companies that have been building local product inventory databases, many of them under the radar. They include Krillion, NearbyNow, Shopatron, Where2GetIt, Channel Intelligence, and ShopLocal. Krillion was the first to start syndicating that data. But NearbyNow is now going to take its billion product database...
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Feb. 14, 2008 at 6:55am by Greg Sterling
Pew: Americans Increasingly Shop Online But Still Fear Identity Theft
For the readers of Search Engine Land it might come as a surprise that, while most US adults find online shopping "convenient," they still don't like sending personal or credit card information over the internet. Based on a consumer telephone survey, among 2,400 adults (9/07), the Pew Internet Project found...
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Nov. 20, 2007 at 8:59am by Greg Sterling
Shopping Engine Retrevo Redesigns, Offers Electronics "Recommendations" To Users
Just in time for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, etc., consumer electronics shopping engine Retrevo has redesigned and now says it's using artificial intelligence, along the lines of dating sites like eHarmony, to find the perfect "match" between consumers and their would-be electronics purchases. The site seeks to simplify electronics shopping...
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Nov. 19, 2007 at 3:24pm by Chris Silver Smith
Forget Black Friday! Are You Ready For Holiday Season's Cyber Mondays?
"Black Friday," the day after Thanksgiving, is the biggest shopping day of the year for U.S. brick-and-mortar retailers. But, for each Monday after Black Friday, consumer searches spike up on the internet and online retail websites enjoy their highest traffic and associated sales of the year. Search engine use is...
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Oct. 2, 2007 at 8:42am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Picks Up Jellyfish Shopping Search Engine
Microsoft has announced the acquisition of a comparison shopping engine named Jellyfish.com. Microsoft believes that Jellyfish's technology "has some interesting potential applications" that they can make a "key component" of Live Search....
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Oct. 1, 2007 at 9:06am by Greg Sterling
Krillion Launches 'Stock Check' Inventory Info For Local Product Search
Product search engine Krillion has launched a feature, called "Stock Check," that enables consumers to see if products (starting with TVs) are in stores locally, buy them online and pick them up at a range of major U.S. retail chains, including Sears, Best Buy, Circuit City, and others. Krillion had...
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Jul. 23, 2007 at 8:26am by Greg Sterling
Local Shopping Site Krillion Expands Inventory
Krillion, a shopping engine that directs people to local stores, has launched its second category, televisions. The site went live in February of this year (with appliances), under the leadership of co-founder and CEO Joel Toledano, former Director of Business Development for Yahoo Search. While the Internet continues to rapidly...
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Jul. 5, 2007 at 9:57am by Greg Sterling
eBay Brings Classifieds Site Kijiji To The U.S.
According to the Newspaper Association of America, U.S. print newspaper classified advertising was worth about $17 billion in 2006. The category has been under pressure for years from top online verticals, some of which are owned by newspapers, eBay, Craigslist and, now, new aggregators and destinations such as Oodle ,...
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Jun. 7, 2007 at 9:12am by Greg Sterling
Sprint And GPShopper Bring Local Shopping To Mobile Phones
The Wall Street Journal (subscription req'd) writes about a partnership between mobile carrier Spint and GPShopper to provide information about local shopping inventory on mobile phones. The consumer application offered by GPShopper is called Slifter, which used to require entry of a Zip code. The partnership with Sprint removes that...
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May. 4, 2007 at 10:50am by Gord Hotchkiss
Kicking The Tires On Shopping Search, Part Two: The Independents
A few weeks back, we looked at how the major engines, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, handled shopping search. This week we look at four of the dedicated shopping search portals: BizRate.com, Shopping.com, Shopzilla.com, NexTag.com, and a relative newcomer to the space, Become.com. Each of these properties matched up quite...
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Apr. 19, 2007 at 8:34am by Greg Sterling
Judy's Book Launches 'CouponLooker' Search Engine
Judy's Book, which has gone through a very interesting and very public change in its business model – from local directory with reviews to shopping site – has now launched a search engine for deals and coupons: CouponLooker.com. It seeks to be an aggregator of deals online to enable people...
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Apr. 13, 2007 at 12:19pm by Gord Hotchkiss
Analyzing The Major Shopping Search Services
This week I'll look at shopping search from the user's perspective. We'll be starting with the big three offerings from the major engines, Google's Froogle, Yahoo Shopping and MSN Shopping. In the next Just Behave column I'll be taking a test drive of some of the dedicated shopping search...
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Apr. 5, 2007 at 11:45am by Brian Smith
Smarter's Product Video Reviews
Smarter's video product reviews are a very entertaining and useful product research tool. As Smarter's product evangelist Paul Willmes said, "the reviews are by people who actually own [the product] which makes it more real. It makes the opinion more valuable, like a friend giving you advice.”...
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Mar. 28, 2007 at 3:01pm by Brian Smith
Google Base & Data Feed Optimization
The vertical search results on the main shopping engines should not be ignored. We're all very familiar with Search Engine Optimization (SEO), but you can also get to the top of Google through Google Base. I estimate that over 30,000 merchants are taking advantage of Google Base, but only a...
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Mar. 26, 2007 at 7:26pm by Brian Smith
Shopping Search Engine Management Changes
Since I've been absent a while (sorry Danny, Chris, and Barry), thought I should first catch everyone up on management changes at the shopping comparison engines....
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Mar. 16, 2007 at 4:52pm by Chris Sherman
Summize: Using Heatmaps In Product Search Results
I wrote earlier this week about Wize a shopping comparison engine that aggregated millions of reviews to compile a "WizeRank" for each product, based on the total number of positive, neutral or negative reviews found on the web. Today Alex Iskold over on ReadWriteWeb takes a takes a look at...
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Mar. 13, 2007 at 1:41pm by Chris Sherman
Wize Up For Better Product Reviews
Although most retail commerce still takes place offline in brick and mortar stores, most people use the web to research products before buying. And product reviews, whether from professionals or consumers who've actually bought and used products, can be a big help in making the right decision (or avoiding a...
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Mar. 5, 2007 at 9:16am by Greg Sterling
Local Shopping Search Stalks E-Commerce
Bob Tedeschi's NY Times e-commerce column today discusses a number of companies, NearbyNow, GPShopper, Krillion, ShopLocal and StepUp seeking to make the online-offline shopping connection. The article's hook is wireless shopping tools from NearbyNow and GPShopper....
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Feb. 22, 2007 at 9:33am by Barry Schwartz
Windows Live Shopping Goes Offline
Brian Smith reports that Windows Live Shopping has been taken offline. The message on the Windows Live Shopping says: This beta test has now ended. Thank you for visiting the Windows Live Shopping beta and helping us test the site. Our vast product selection and user-created content, such as guides...
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Feb. 5, 2007 at 9:09am by Greg Sterling
Krillion Launches 'Actionable Local Search'
Joining the ranks of a small but growing list of companies trying to connect online product research and offline buying, Krillion launched this morning. Other companies offering local product information to varying degrees in this segment are ShopLocal, StepUp, NearbyNow, Yokel, CNET, Froogle, Become.com and data provider Channel Intelligence....
