All the articles of July, 2008

• Jul 30, 2008 Google more and more relevant as CSE

  Not really a breaking news, but Google is becoming more and more relevant as CSE. In a post entitled “Google Product Surge“, Kevin Packler explains: Recently there has been a strong rise in the effectiveness of Google Product Search (GPS) as a source of traffic and sales. [...] My information is based on client data, where [...]

• Jul 25, 2008 Preview of upcoming iPhone App from TheFind

  Siva Kumar, CEO of TheFind, has been kind enough to share with me a preview of “TheFind: Where to Shop“, a new iPhone application “designed to give consumers the ability to leverage TheFind’s powerful shopping search capabilities and comprehensive local store data from anywhere, via the Apple iPhone“. From the screenshots below, this application is really [...]

• Jul 17, 2008 Patent sillyness…

  Reported by TechCrunch today: Channel Intelligence, a company based in Florida, filed a lawsuit for patent infringement in Delaware on Tuesday against a long list of startups and other companies and individuals who have one thing in common – they offer wish lists for products people may want others to buy for them. [...] The patent [...]

• Jul 16, 2008 Rich Media and CSEs…

  More and more retailers are experimenting with rich media on their websites; for those who like rich media, video, RIAs… and who speak french, there is RichCommerce.fr, a blog dedicated on rich interfaces applied to the commerce world. But so far, CSEs were rarely mentioned when talking about rich media / RIAs. Today, ChannelAdvisor announces the [...]

• Jul 15, 2008 Summize acquired by Twitter

  It has been rumored in the last week, but today it is official: Summize and its Twitter search platform has been acquired by Twitter, the micro-blogging platform… But who remembers that Summize has its roots as review aggregator? The whole story of Summize is explained by Jay Virdy, Summize CEO, in the final post on [...]

• Jul 11, 2008 Testing Google Trends for Websites on shopping engines

  Since one month, Google Trends now shows traffic trends for websites, and therefore becomes a competitor of Alexa or Compete. Google is a bit secret about the way data are collected: Trends for Websites combines information from a variety of sources, such as aggregated Google search data, aggregated opt-in anonymous Google Analytics data, opt-in consumer panel [...]

• Jul 08, 2008 The integration of NearbyNow local inventories into TheFind is now live

  Announced 2 months ago, the integration of NearbyNow local inventories into TheFind is now live. When doing a mouse-over on some products, you now get a “Check local inventories” button next to product details. This button leads you to a page co-branded with NearbyNow, where you can choose the local shop you are interested in, give [...]

• Jul 05, 2008 Search: how to clarify user’s intent? Kosmix comes with an impressive solution

  At Kelkoo, we observed that, out of the top 100 most frequent queries per month, about 60 to 70 of those queries are brand names. Yes, people searching for “samsung” or “apple” and expecting to get relevant results for their query. But what are the users’ intent when searching for a brand name? In May [...]

• Jul 05, 2008 Site up!

  My site (nicolasleroy.fr) has been offline since last Friday, and has finally reborn this night :) What happened? Basically, I forgot to renew my domain name, and then came up with an imbroglio between my registrar and the company that hosts my website. I hadn’t received any mail from my registrar saying my domain name was [...]