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October 2005Away --> TokyoAfter tomorrow, I'll be seriously offline until mid-November while visiting Tokyo.
Away --> Tokyo
Overview of Merchant Reputation ManagementSearch Engine Watch has an article from guest writer Shari Thurow: Shopping Search and Merchant Reputations
Overview of Merchant Reputation Management
FatLens expands into new categoriesFatLens, which started in ticket search, beta-launched shopping search functionality in a half-dozen categories: - Jewelry and Watches Includes some tough categories that have been long-neglected by comparison shopping, which is good. (However, I'm not sure if basic shopping search will have enough to offer in the featuretastic world of consumer electronics.) The site is very clean, albeit with a small group of initial merchants, interested to see how much they can scale...
FatLens expands into new categories
Growth Awards for NexTagNexTag is getting recognized:
Growth Awards for NexTag
Comparison Shopping OptimizationI just ran across a sponsored case study on InternetRetailer.com from July 2005: Comparison Shopping Optimization: What Every Online Retailer Needs to Know (for a .PDF, see the source) It is a nice outline of how retailers can improve their advertising perfomance with comparison shopping engines, but perhaps even more significant is that is uses the term comparison shopping optimization. By now, many (most?) online retailers have heard of search engine optimization, or its abbreviation, SEO. There are still variations of this term, and search engine marketing (SEM) is the more accurate description for integrated SEO and PPC, but there is no denying the mojo of SEO. Comparison shopping vendors have no equivalent to SEO or SEM. The lack mojo. I've seen "shopping feed management" (SFM?), but it sound so unsexy, so bureaucratic, like anyone could do it and get roughly the same results. It sounds like the kind of job that would be handed down to Milton from Office Space, if only he could find his stapler. Then there are the companies who come up with terms so obtuse, I have a hard time figuring out what the heck they are selling. Maybe that is their point, but I think in the long run, everyone benefits from using terminology that is at least in the same ballpark. Is there a term a potential customer can type into Google to find the majority of comparison shopping service vendors? "shopping feeds" might be the most used, and the least glamorous. Anyway, I'm surprised a natural-sounding phrase like comparison shopping optimization ("CSO") was not used before the white paper (Google: comparison shopping optimization), and has not been used since, except for copies and references of the source.
Comparison Shopping Optimization
Shopping Toolbarsecommerce-guide.com reports on shopping toolbars from SquareTrade, NexTag and Vendio.
Shopping Toolbars
Rakuten and NTT DoCoMo in strategic allienceI don't have any special insights here, but word on the street is that internet auction allience between Rakuten and NTT DoCoMo could be interesting... archiving it here for possible follow-up...
Rakuten and NTT DoCoMo in strategic allience
Yahoo-Kimo offers comparison shopping for Taiwan"Yahoo-Kimo, Taiwan's largest Internet portal, announced yesterday that they have launched a comparison shopping portal that will assist online shoppers in comparing different products before they make their choices." more details: chinapost.com
Yahoo-Kimo offers comparison shopping for Taiwan
Become Japanvia SiliconBeat, Become.com expands overseas: "Become Japan will launch sometime before the end of the year. Yang says the goal is to take Become Japan public in Japan." check the full post for details...
Become Japan
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