Shopping can provide online merchants with a marketplace in which to sell their goods. Often times, local merchants can test the waters to determine whether or not the local search space provides them with the type of leads that convert to high...
Affiliates and PPCAre affiliates the cause of high PPC search ad costs for merchants? Many merchants are taking steps to prevent affiliate arbitrage. Niched or Vertical Approach Popular in Chinese SearchIn the last 30 days, both Yahoo and MSN have...
Many merchants are taking steps to prevent affiliate arbitrage. Affiliates and PPCAre affiliates the cause of high PPC search ad costs for merchants? Niched or Vertical Approach Popular in Chinese SearchIn the last 30 days, both Yahoo and MSN have...
Google Base Adds Click & Impression Metrics For Merchants - Google Base is now showing merchants the number of times their Google Base items are viewed (impressions), clicked on and the pageviews of that item.MORE”.
The company will list a small subset of your products for free and then, as opposed to charging on a click basis, Sortprice has an Enhanced Listing Program in which merchants pay a flat monthly rate. and 'Add to My MSN' buttons.
MSN Shopping covers over 7,000 merchants and 33 million products. The beauty of a shopping comparison engine like MSN Shopping is in its ability to normalize product pages - put simply, item clustering (I'm borrowing that term from Imran Aziz, Lead...
MSN Shopping covers over 7,000 merchants and 33 million products. Because of this, Windows Live Product Search covers over 100,000 merchants (a lot more than the 7,000 or so covered on MSN Shopping and Windows Live Shopping).
PriceGrabber offers products and services from about 9000 merchants. Since Chris wrote this article another development I see as important in shopping search is the recent inclusion of eBay items into the MSN Shopping database.
We have invested in building out our software platform to handle such high churn workloads and have expanded our server infrastructure to efficiently and quickly ingest the inventory available on eBay, along with the catalogs of our existing...
Although established players continue to dominate the shopping and comparison search space, a number of new companies have launched promising alternatives that offer even more features for searchers and merchants.
MSN Shopping went through a complete overhaul this year, morphing from essentially a large, online mall with a couple-hundred well-known merchants participating to a full-scale comparison shopping service with millions of product offerings from...
The Shopping Search and Merchant Reputations session looked at how merchant reviews may impact shopping search listings, and panelists offered recommendations for merchants to ensure that they maintain a good reputation.
Other search providers like GoFish provide searchable access to downloadable files (fee-based) from various digital music merchants while Blinkx offers access to streaming audio material (including podcasts) from several sources.
They want online merchants to only have a few stores that we can dedicate time and attention to. MSN Shopping Switches to Comparison Site.dmnews.com Aug 2 2005 12:34PM GMT Tomorrow I'll take a look at the search engine penalties applied by Yahoo...
Guaranteed Clicks For Local Search Ads Doesn't Mean High Visibility - Local search ad programs offering click guarantees may sound great to some merchants, but at some point, they want to see their ads -- and they may not be appearing where they...
Guaranteed Clicks For Local Search Ads Doesn't Mean High Visibility - Local search ad programs offering click guarantees may sound great to some merchants, but at some point, they want to see their ads -- and they may not be appearing where they...
Yahoo recently rolled out its Shopping Gift Finder that offers customized recommendations drawing from 60 million products from more than 200,000 merchants. These "recommendation engines" let you specify a few key variables, such as age...
The first generation of shopping search engines relied largely on structured product feeds provided by merchants. In many cases, merchants also pay a premium for placement in shopping search results. As shopping search has evolved, web crawling...
I think people may be more understanding that in such a product-oriented service, merchants should foot the bill a bit to be listed. So Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves -- tech companies, media companies?
While most countries have prominent native online merchants that tend to garner a lot of local revenue, local or regional shopping search and comparison services have yet to emerge as a powerful force.
