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Smarter.com.cn and Smarter.co.jp

Very cool to see Smarter launching so soon in both China and Japan. From what I can tell, the Chinese site is more sophisticated than the Japanese site. Or rather, the Japanese site looks more focused on categories like apparel and beauty, instead of attribute-oriented categories like computers and electronics. Both of them look to be filling out quickly, as evidenced by their Google page counts:

site:smarter.co.jp = 211,000
site:smarter.com.cn = 81,300

In particular, the Chinese site seems to be gaining traction:

(RSS readers: click here to see the Alexa graph)

OT: I'm in the early stages of trying to learn the Japanese language, maybe all these comparison shopping engines -- old, new and future -- will serve as interesting learning resources.

Smarter.com.cn and Smarter.co.jp
Posted by Sean O'Rourke on December 12, 2005 at 1:11 PM
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