All the articles of May, 2008

• May 31, 2008 Google testing a Finance price comparison service in the UK

  SearchEngineLand had the scoop: Google is experimenting a new service called “Google Merchant Search“. From the Google FAQ: What is Google Merchant Search? Google Merchant Search is an easy new way for you to find products or services from providers who match your needs. What products or services are supported through Google Merchant Search? The service is [...]

• May 25, 2008 On holidays for the week

  I’m off for the week, going to the Aosta Valley in Italy… No internet connection, no cell phone… HOLIDAYS !!! :)

• May 25, 2008 Yahoo! SearchMonkey is live (and some thoughts on search innovation)

  Yahoo! SearchMonkey, the platform that allows publishers to enhance the display of their indexed pages on Yahoo! Search, is now live in the US and the UK. You can test it by searching on Yahoo! Search and browsing the gallery of existing applications. Only a few apps are installed by default (i.e: the YouTube app); [...]

• May 21, 2008 Other Microsoft / Windows Live news…

  Following the announcement of Windows Live Cashback, Microsoft has given some other news regarding its search and advertising strategies during its advance08 conference. News related to online shopping: Farecast – the travel search destination recently bought by Microsoft – is relaunched under the Windows Live moniker, as Windows Live Farecast. No changes in terms of features, [...]

• May 21, 2008 Microsoft Live Search will use Jellyfish technology to offer cashbacks

  This is the big news of the day: we now know why Microsoft has bought Jellyfish a few months ago. Not to improve MSN Shopping… but Windows Live Search. Indeed, Microsoft has announced Windows Live Search Cashback, a program to add cashback features on its web search (read the press release). As described in the [...]

• May 20, 2008 NearbyNow brings local inventories to TheFind

  Read on SearchEngineLand: 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 and make it [...]

• May 19, 2008 Shopping for laptop – Kelkoo introduces a new product navigation

  We can say there are two major patterns when browsing on a shopping engine: The product-based navigation – you browse among products, find an appealing product displayed with a price range; then you click on this product to get all offers from merchants. This pattern lets you compare prices for the exact same product among various [...]

• May 12, 2008 Some benefits of Data Portability for online shoppers

  Cartsen Pötter (a german blogger who has a strong interest in OpenID and microformats technologies) wrote a really interesting article that explains some benefits for online shops to start using OpenID and APML – two technologies pushed by the Data Portability initiative. One issue with online shops is that you usually have to register on each [...]

• May 09, 2008 Yahoo! launches Glue Pages in India

  Read on SearchEngineLand: Yahoo has launched Glue Pages Beta in Yahoo India. Glue Pages are specialized pages that contain an enhanced visual search result page, for select search queries. The search results that trigger the special “Glue Pages” run across searches in health, sports, entertainment, travel, technology, and finance categories. The Glue Pages combine classic search [...]

• May 08, 2008 Preview of Kelkoo integration on Yahoo! SearchMonkey

  In February, Yahoo! announced SearchMonkey, a platform that allows publishers to enhance the display of their indexed pages on Yahoo! Search. Then, three weeks ago, Yahoo! has launched a preview of the SearchMonkey developer platform; as explained on the Yahoo! Search Blog: With this online tool, developers can build data services that can be used to [...]

• May 07, 2008 Shopping for food

  During the past months, prices rise of oil, wheat, rice… led to global prices rise on food goods. In France (and I guess in other countries as well), consumers are becoming cautious when buying food: they are now checking and comparing prices more carefully. Still, CSEs don’t have a rich offer when it comes to [...]

• May 06, 2008 Google testing new shopping features

  Google is testing a new version of its Product Search with “pure CSE features”: aggregation of merchant offers by product, “compare prices” links, technical specifications and reviews for products. This new version was seen in December ‘07 by eCommerceOptimization. This week, Google Operating System and SearchEngineLand are writing about the new features. However, from Europe, [...]

• May 03, 2008 AdaptiveBlue launches new format for the semantic web

  AdaptiveBlue is a company focused on tools that leverage the benefits of the semantic web. I clearly believe the semantic web is the future of the web, even if the adoption rate is still low. I think microformats helped a lot people understands the benefits of the semantic web lately; but I regret the [...]

• May 02, 2008 New version of Windows Live Products

  On LiveSide: Following an extremely long period of inactivity (in fact, the team blog’s last post was back in April 2007), Live Search Products has finally been updated along with the latest wave of Live Search releases. [...] You can see that you’re now able to refine your search results on the left by user opinions, [...]

• May 02, 2008 Site updates (April 2008)

  The last 2 months have been quite productive on the blog, with 18 published articles!! And I also found some time for a few updates on the rest of the site. Wordpress 2.5.1 I was a bit afraid remembering my painful upgrade to Wordpress 2.3, but the migration to Wordpress 2.5.1 went really smooth for me. The new [...]