Google Shopping now shows ‘Price at Checkout’
Google is displaying the Price at Checkout in Shopping listings, enhancing transparency and helping shoppers avoid unexpected price changes.
Topic: Price discrimination
Bing’s new shopping features emphasize comparison shopping
The updated interface helps it reach parity with Google Shopping, but both search engines are looking to provide users with features and data that Amazon doesn't.
Google hotel search results testing ‘price insights’
Is the hotel you are about to book a good deal? Google can now tell you if you should book that hotel now.
Google adds price tracking features to flight search, hotel search and Google Trips
Google adds several features to help searchers plan their getaways.
Google Flights now shows expected airfare cost increases & filter for hotel discounts
During the coming weeks, Google Flights will also roll out email notifications to alert users when prices expire for tracked flights or routes.
Google Now Issues Hotel Price Drop Alerts — But Only For Googlers
Google Now is testing a feature to notify users when their hotel reservation price drops. Currently it is only an internal test for Googlers.
Shopping Comparison: TheFind Finds Lowest Price More Often Than Google, Bing, Others
In December, Danny Sullivan sought to determine which of the major shopping search engines found the best prices for common products. The shopping engines compared in Danny’s articles were Nextag, Shopzilla, PriceGrabber, Google, Bing and TheFind: The Test Begins: Do Google Shopping & Other Shopping Search Engines Give You The Best Deals? The Test Continues: Which […]
The Test Continues: Which Shopping Search Engine Finds The Best Price For A Blu-Ray?
It’s time for our second test of how well Google Shopping and other shopping search engines find the best prices on products. For this installment, what’s the lowest price from a major retailer for a copy of “Red 2” in the Blu-ray, DVD and digital download combo pack? Is The Featured Price The Lowest Price? […]
The Test Begins: Do Google Shopping & Other Shopping Search Engines Give You The Best Deals?
It sounds pretty damning. Two recent surveys suggest that Google Shopping isn’t leading searchers to the best prices on products. But the surveys weren’t well documented, nor did they include competitors like Bing, Shopzilla, PriceGrabber and Nextag, which have similar issues. So, Search Engine Land will be running its own fully documented tests. Every few […]
Consumer Watchdog Says Google Shopping Costs Consumers, Complains To FTC
Consumer Watchdog has lodged a new complaint about Google’s “search monopoly” with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), this time saying Google Shopping results don’t pass the sniff test. The group calls the way the search engine displays its Product Listing ads “deceptive and unfair”, adding that Google Shopping’s paid listings are price gouging consumers. […]