March 31, 2005

Shopping.com France - First Look

rechercher, comparer et acheter...

Today, Shopping.com did what it said it would do and expanded its shopping service to France, http://fr.shopping.com.

I had time to look at several categories, and this site looks like the real deal.

shopping.com - digital cameras, laptop computers, refrigerators
fr.shopping.com - digital cameras, notebook computers, refrigerators

Sure enough, my contact at Shopping.com confirmed that the FR site has the same attributes as the US site, plus some additional attributes specifically for the local audience.

That might not seem like a big deal, until you look at the difference in functionality at sites like Yahoo Shopping and their unconnected counterparts in India and Japan and Australia and...

I have not confirmed, but have to assume, that Shopping.com was able to seed the user ratings from their other sites. The only thing I did not see was user reviews, which was to be expected, or a link to add new reviews, which was not expected.

I'll look more into the European expansion in the coming weeks.

Shopping.com France - First Look
Posted by Sean O'Rourke on March 31, 2005 at 7:02 PM
Archived at Europe | France | Shopping.com



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