All the articles of February, 2008
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Feb 27, 2008
Greenzer – A new green shopping engine is coming
Greenzer is a new green shopping engine that is expected to go live in Q1 08. Read on ecommerce-guide.com: The new site is partnering with Channel Intelligence Inc., which is contributing its data classification know-how to filter a wide selection of environmentally preferable consumer products available on Greenzer.com’s shopping engine.The company says the collaboration will [...]
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Feb 26, 2008
Yahoo! Search Monkey – An opportunity to customize listings in Yahoo! SRPs
On SearchEngineLand today (and also on TechCrunch – and the official announcment is on Yahoo! Search Blog): Today, at the inaugural Search Marketing Expo West conference, Yahoo plans to unveil a project code-named “Search Monkey,” a set of open-source tools that allow users and publishers to annotate and enhance search results associated with specific web [...]
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Feb 25, 2008
Bad press for CSEs
In the last week, I have read a couple of articles related to CSEs that were not really positive. Among those: TechCrunch UK – Price comparison sites are going, going, gone… “[...] For now though, PriceGrabber is not the only one ‘on the block’. Yahoo has been looking to sell Kelkoo, which operates in 10 [...]
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Feb 24, 2008
New “suggest as you type” feature on Yahoo! Shopping US
Yahoo! Shopping US has launched a new “suggest as you type” feature, à-la Yahoo! Search: Same look&feel than on Yahoo! Search (but without the “explore concept” section that could have been adapted to the shopping world – top categories, top brands…) Available from the homepage, the category pages and the search result pages Give access [...]
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Feb 18, 2008
Like.com launched as 1.0
See blog post from Like.com CEO: Like.com, the visual shopping search based on image analysis, has just launched its 1.0 release. It’s worth reading the article, and then test the site. I will take a few days to test it before commenting; but what I can see at a glance seems rather impressive.
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Feb 18, 2008
Ciao debuts in the US
Ciao, the European-based shopping engine, has launched its US site last week; and it’s a brand new site compared to its European sites (look at the UK one to convince yourself). The core business of Ciao in Europe and in the US is the same: price comparison with a heavy focus on the community and [...]
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Feb 17, 2008
New PriceRunner homepage
PriceRunner has been relaunched with a new design: new homepage, and new header/footer on the whole site; but no real changes on the user experience itself. The changes have been rolled out in all countries where PriceRunner operates. A few thoughts: Two-columns presentation with categories on the left, and a mix of editorial content and [...]
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Feb 17, 2008
PriceGrabber to be sold?
Read in Times Online: EXPERIAN, the credit-checking giant, has put its price-comparison website Pricegrabber up for sale less than three years after it paid almost $500m for the online firm. [...] The decision to put Pricegrabber on the block may raise a few eyebrows given that revenue growth at the shopping search engine was a [...]
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Feb 15, 2008
Kelkoo hacked (kind of)
Last week, the Fifth European Hack Day was organized at Yahoo! (for those who wonder what a Hack Day is, read this). Among the hacks that were presented, there is one that catched my attention: Listings-Like-This has been developed by Ben Ward, member of the web development team at Yahoo! Europe and contributor to the [...]
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Feb 08, 2008
Amazon is becoming a shopping engine
A couple of articles have been published in the last hours, commenting the new Product Ads program quietly launched by Amazon US: Comparison Engines: Amazon becomes the largest shopping engine Amazon Strategies: Amazon Product Ads launched? TechCrunch US: Amazon Quietly Launches Product Ads; Secretly Wants to Become a Shopping Search Engine CSE Strategies: Amazon Product [...]
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Feb 04, 2008
Winter photographies of mountain ranges surrounding Grenoble - [35 photos]
A collection of photographies shot with my new Canon EOS 40D camera. All those photos have been shot near Grenoble and its surrounding mountain ranges (Belledonne, Chartreuse, Vercors)
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