SimplyHired, a vertical search engine focused on employment, has partnered with the New York Post to supplement that publications job listings. Similar to Indeed's integration with the New York Times, listings from SimplyHired can only be found...
A Q & A with Google Product Marketing Director Debbie Jaffe wraps up our four-part series on the special information sections creeping into general search results.
Continuing our four-part series on the special information sections creeping into general search results, today we take a look at Yahoo Shortcuts.
Seems that just last week I mentioned a shopping comparison engine launching a color search feature. Well, this week it's Smarter's turn to take the colorful spotlight. Smarter.com today launched visual search. Visual search can be found by...
SideStep acquired TravelPost for a combination of cash and stock. TravelPost will become a wholly owned subsidiary of SideStep. According to the press release, "TravelPost.com has grown into a leading source for unbiased user-generated hotel...
Become follows Etsy and Shopwiki in adding a search by color feature. Once consumers perform a shopping (as opposed to research) search, "a Color Search bar appears at the top right of the results page. Users can mouse over the color they desire...
Continuing our four-part series on the special information sections creeping into general search results, today we take a look at Microsoft's Live.com Instant Answers.
Ask.com has truly differentiated itself with the "Smart Answers" it returns for thousands of queries, offering facts, images and targeted links that respond directly to a searcher's information need.
There are many reasons to like Pronto among the many crawler based shopping search engines: - Comprehensiveness (read last week's press release) - Upcoming features that provide a better user experience - Monetization through an ad system not...
SideStep today launched its syndication platform, "a simple and easily customizable platform that provides a consistent user experience between SideStep.com and partners who want to incorporate SideStep's award winning travel search technology...
Last week I told you about Yahoo's new Coupon Shortcut. In that post, I said that the comments on Adam Viener's Revenews post seem to suggest that Coupon Cabin is providing the coupon codes, but Chris Saito of Yahoo! Shopping told me that...
Adam Viener of ReveNews.com discovered a Yahoo! Shortcut which gives searchers quick and easy access to coupon codes. Adam highlighted a search for kodak gallery coupon codes. Here are some other examples: circuit city coupon, vistaprint...
Yesterday Sortprice put out a press release about being a 'next generation' shopping comparison engine. While I'm not so sure I'd agree with that, the larger players in the industry should pay attention to this little operation. The press...
No longer do you have to weed through hundreds or thousands of search results to find a discussion forum or product specs for Aston Martin's Vanquish. With Become, you can search for 'Aston Martin Vanquish' or any other product and then filter...
Zillow, the real estate wunderkind, announced a partnership with Yahoo! in which Zillow's Zestimates (home value estimates) will show up on Yahoo! search result pages as a Shortcut. Here's the result for 'home values' on Yahoo!. Zillow will...
IAC, owner of Ask.com, has launched Pronto.com, a comparison shopping search web site. Can it compete with the entrenched, well-funded giants in the shopping search space?
Kayak, the travel search engine, today launched a $10m advertising campaign with a HUGE offline component. The TV commercials are fun, creative, and potentially viral. It's no coincidence that the spots can also be found on Kayak.com and...
Google Checkout adoption will translate to higher costs for the shopping comparison engines. Some of the costs will be passed onto merchants, and Im not sure theyll stand for it. The shopping comparison engines are some of the biggest...
Smarter.com made 4 major changes to its website. The company introduced a new design, new ranking methodology, clustering beta, and limited crawling. While Smarter is one of the little guys in the shopping comparison engine industry...
I spent 3.5 hours Saturday night creating and lightly optimizing a completely new data feed (or bulk upload) to get PersonalProtectionStore's home security products up and running on Google Base. PersonalProtectionStore uses Yahoo! Merchant...
