All the articles of April, 2009

RT @Econsultancy: Tips on getting into Google’s product search results http://bit.ly/OngLd # Shopseen – social shopping for local shoppers – http://mashable.com/2009/04/20/shopseen/ # Irony: In Yahoo Q1’09 results: “As expected, revenues were reduced by the effects of currency rate fluctuations, the sale of Kelkoo [… … # New version of Google Product Search for iPhone and [...]

On BusinessWire: TheFind, the leading vertical search engine for shopping, announced today that it is making green shopping search available on TheFind.com. TheFind’s fast-growing audience of over 11.5 million monthly shoppers can now search more than 1 million green products from organic and environmentally-friendly brands and stores. With a single click, shoppers can consider green [...]

Week-end in the small village of Saint-Pierre d'Albigny in the Bauges mountain ranges. Despite a cloudy and rainy first day, we spent a wonderful moment at the Chateau des Allues guest house.

New search result pages for Yahoo! Shopping US – now their redesign (started in March’08) is complete – http://bit.ly/1a3prG # Today was certainly my last day of snowboarding of the year – still a lot of snow at Les 7 Laux ski resort # Just launched a new design on my blog – http://www.nicolasleroy.fr – [...]

November, 12th - Seven hours stop at Hong Kong ; enough to leave the airport, go to Central Hong Kong, and get a glimpse of this amazing city. Sept heures d'arrêt à Hong Kong ; assez [...]

Before the release of Internet Explorer 8, browsers could be enhanced through “fat” browser extensions to be downloaded and installed (i.e: eBay Browser Highlighter or StyleFeeder Personal Shopper): quite painful process to sometimes only test a new service… Then, we saw the rise of bookmarklets, small scripts added in the bookmark section of the browser [...]

When I reviewed Windows Live Cashback back in May’08, I mentioned: “Still, the current cashback program is another vertical inside Windows Live Search, with currently no integration with Windows Live Products, the recently revamped shopping search of Microsoft“. Today, Windows Live Search blog announced a merged Windows Live Cashback / Windows Live Products experience: To bring you the best [...]

Read on TechCrunch: In the midst of the recession, consumers are either cutting back on spending or actively looking to reduce expenses. And with retail sales plunging during March, decreasing by 1.1% compared to February, it looks like retailers are in for the long haul when its comes to the virtual drought in consumer spending. [...]

Last week, we deployed a new grid view on Kelkoo. This redesign was quite a challenge for us: we felt the previous version was not provided enough data / value to the user. But at the same time we manage more than 10 different types of offers (“Shopping“, “Car“, “Holidays“, “Flight“, “Hotel“, “Car Hire“, “Credit [...]

Shopoon is a french shopping engine launched in 2006; and focused on fashion apparel and home decoration products. This week, Shopoon relaunched itself as PureShopping.  New brand and a new version of the site that is really interesting as it breaks with the “classic” aesthetic of shopping engines / price comparison websites. Here are below a [...]

Shopoon becomes PureShopping – http://www.pureshopping.com # New feed format from Shopping.com, supporting deep and custom attributes – http://tinyurl.com/dgups9 # New UI experiment at Shopping.com: http://www3.shopping.com/xDN-shoes #

Talking CSE Strategy with Kelkoo, Ciao and eConsultancy at Catalyst UK – http://tinyurl.com/co8bep # Google explaining how retailers can improve ROI from Shopping Comparison sites using Analytics – worth reading – http://tinyurl.com/dkhpf4 # New PriceGrabber product pages – http://tinyurl.com/dc8ogo – as always with PG, design is very clean # April Fool’s day on Kelkoo FR [...]