March 31, 2005

Kakaku.com: Japanese Comparison Shopping Engine... Wow!

How did it take me so long to find such a large comparison shopping site? I am shamed...

Stats as of February 2005:
6.16 million unique users
302 million page views
http://www.kakaku.com/

NOTE: There is more corporate information on this page in English.

Now for "WOW"...

This is a site that clearly does not have to worry about limitations such as small monitors or low bandwidth. Not only that, they have a triple-sort option (translate: Babelfish or Google) on their attribute-based search pages. Nice!

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In related news, due to an unexpected wave of new opportunities, I will not have time to attend the Tokyo "Search Engine Strategies" conference in April. Hopefully, I'll have better luck next time.

Kakaku.com: Japanese Comparison Shopping Engine... Wow!
Posted by Sean O'Rourke on March 31, 2005 at 7:59 PM
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