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Yahoo! ShoppingNew! Yahoo Shopping Web Services API"You can use Yahoo! Shopping Web Services to search our database of millions of product offers and thousands of merchants." "Rate Limit: Yahoo! Shopping Web Services are limited to 5,000 queries per IP a day" via: Search Engine Watch
New! Yahoo Shopping Web Services API
Yahoo Shopping upgrades Australia & NZ(I only missed the press release by two months.) Major upgrade, Yahoo Shopping Australia & NZ used to be a shell of a site, now it has real comparison functionality, via Kelkoo. Yahoo Australia seems excited, if the bold-red "NEW" on the home page is any indication. Not many merchants yet, but it is a start.
Yahoo Shopping upgrades Australia & NZ
Interview with Rob Solomon of Yahoo ShoppingAn in-depth interview with Rob Solomon, GM & VP of Yahoo! Shopping, over at ComparisonEngines.com.
Interview with Rob Solomon of Yahoo Shopping
Yahoo Mindset: Refrigerator KeywordYahoo has introduced a new search tool, Yahoo Mindset, which uses sliders to re-mix the main search results, based on the user's location on the shopping-research continuum. Ken "Hey" Norton has some interesting thoughts on this kind of user interface, and a lengthy discussion is also taking place at Greg Linden's blog. I might add inferface comments to one or both of those posts, but my focus here is the following question: is this an example of a "horizontal" search engine having the answer to vertical search? For an apples-to-apples comparison, I ran the primary flavors of Yahoo Minset (default, all-shopping, all-research) against the pesky "refrigerator" keyword. (see: Become vs. Google - Refrigerator Keyword). continued: First Impression: this is not the be-all, end-all answer to engines like Become.com. The shopping results are not particularly authoritative for a category-level keyword. The difference could be that Become.com applies a shopping-oriented algorithm against an entire index of shopping-oriented listings. Yahoo Mindset applies their shopping-flavored criteria against a tiny fraction of their main search results. In many cases, the subset used for Yahoo Mindset is less than 1% of total results. - What if the main index is imbalanced? i.e. What is there are too many sites from either Shopping or Research, and they crowd out the most outstanding results from the other end of the spectrum? - What if the main index is too... bland? i.e. What if too many sites that are not strongly Shopping or Research crowd out the most outsanding results from both ends of the spectrum?
Yahoo Mindset: Refrigerator Keyword
Yahoo Auctions to Drop Listing Fees in U.S.AuctionsBytes has good background on the announcement here. let's see... What changed between then and now? eBay developments, of course. What else? * They are certainly making more money from paid search... They lost a ton of listings in 2001 (see AuctionBytes).
Yahoo Auctions to Drop Listing Fees in U.S.
Gift FindersEver since Yahoo announced their partnership with ChoiceStream, I've been meaning to take a deeper look at the various gift-finding tools. Unfortunately, this month is not the best time for "shootout"-depth analysis. Luckily, Danny Sullivan provided a gift-finder overview at Search Engine Watch. Now, David Beach (product manager at Yahoo! Shopping) shares his thoughts on their new tool. For anyone who wants to dig deeper into the gift-finding engines, here are deep links to Mother's Day gift ideas at the major sites: * Yahoo! Shopping Gift Finder: Mother's Day
Gift Finders
Yahoo Shopping RSS FeedsYahoo Shopping has launched RSS feeds for several popular categories - music, movies, electronics and computers. http://shopping.yahoo.com/rss/ No need to get too excited. These feeds are very basic. Still, it is nice to hear something from Yahoo Shopping, who has been too quiet lately. via ResearchBuzz
Yahoo Shopping RSS Feeds
Social Networking for Yahoo Shopping?Lately, I've been thinking a lot about different ways the general shopping comparison sites could ease people towards more advanced product-finding, instead of making the user do all the dirty work. Could this turn out to be a step in that direction? Rob Solomon, vice president for Yahoo shopping, said that his company is also working on social networking for its shopping area. source: sfgate.com
Social Networking for Yahoo Shopping?
Shopping Search Week 2004 at Search Engine Watch (3 of 4)Day #3 - summaries of NexTag, PriceGrabber, Shopping.com/Dealtime and Yahoo Shopping.
Shopping Search Week 2004 at Search Engine Watch (3 of 4)
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