All the articles of October, 2008

• Oct 28, 2008 Economic crisis: is it good for CSEs?

  Well, yes, according to two recent articles (discussing the European market): On e-Consultancy: Online retailers are increasingly benefiting from marketing their products on shopping comparison sites as cash-strapped consumers seek bargains online, according to research published today by E-consultancy and DoubleClick.  Some 43% of retailers surveyed by online research publisher E-consultancy say that the proportion of online sales [...]

• Oct 23, 2008 Product results within Google Adwords

  On SearchEngineLand: A search for bluenile in Google will now return a search ad for Blue Nile. The search ad is not an ordinary Google search ad, instead, it shows a link that reads, “Show products from Blue Nile for bluenile.” If you click on that link, it opens up three product results from Blue Nile. [...] The ad [...]

• Oct 23, 2008 Compare the candidates for the ‘08 US election…

  From this side of the Atlantic, it’s funny seeing some shopping destinations opening special pages on their sites to cover the ‘08 US elections. Two examples: PriceGrabber PriceGrabber has a special tab in its main navigation entitled “Election’08“, which leads to a mini-site dedicated to the election: Welcome to PriceGrabber.com’s Candidate Comparison website. We’ve researched tons of information [...]

• Oct 22, 2008 New MonsieurPrix.com / ShopGenie.co.uk websites

  MonsieurPrix.com and its english counterpart ShopGenie.co.uk have been relaunched today with a new design. Acquired by Kelkoo in 2003, those two shopping destinations are now completely powered by the Kelkoo Syndication APIs, which are available to all Kelkoo partners.

• Oct 20, 2008 BestBuy experiments hProduct on its main site

  Following the Giftag announcement in September, BestBuy is now starting implementing the hProduct microformat on its main site. Via the blog of Jay Myers, lead developer at BestBuy: [...] In an experimental move, we are adding hProduct to all search result, listing pages (faceted navigation), and “shop URLs” (http://www.bestbuy.com/shop/term) on the site with a pre-holiday code [...]

• Oct 06, 2008 New logo and color scheme for TheFind.com

  TheFind sports a new logo and color scheme – forget the orange and the red; the blue and the marroon now rule! The “Shopping Search Reinvented” tagline has also disappeared. To be honest, I’m not really convinced with the new colors: they give a “too serious” look to the site, when I found the orange and [...]

• Oct 03, 2008 Eco-friendly hotel search with WholeTravel

  On TechCrunch (emphasis is mine): The “green” incarnation of travel, called ecotourism, mandates that travelers minimize their cultural, economic, and environmental impacts as much as possible to promote sustainability. But while there are thousands of hotels worldwide that promote themselves as “green”, many of them are only partially fulfilling these requirements – they might not be wasting [...]

• Oct 01, 2008 The eBay Browser Highlighter, pragmatic solution to a more complex problem

  Read on TechCrunch: eBay launched a new browser extension tool tonight that lets you highlight different products in Firefox or Internet Explorer and compare the pricing of those products on eBay. The tool also includes Skype functionality, which will let you click on a number in your browser and call it directly via Skype. [...] Because it’s [...]