On its US site, Google has pushed Product Search in its top navigation, replacing the Video link. In 2006, Froogle – the previous name of Product Search – was removed from the top navigation in favor of Google Video. Did Google do this because of the coming Chrismas season? Will it stay there or will [...]
Filed under: Comparison shopping, E-business, Online merchants, Online shopping | Tagged: Google Products | Leave a Comment »
A lot of comparison shopping engines (CSE) have recently changed their looks. A while ago, all CSE’s had categories prominently displayed on their homepage. Now, it seems that almost all CSE’s are turning away from that look-and-feel, giving ‘ search’ a much more dominant place.
Also, the homepage of all revamped CSE’s focuses more on [...]
Filed under: Comparison shopping, Online merchants, Online shopping | Tagged: CSE new looks, look-and-feel | 2 Comments »
It’s one of the oldest questions in the retail business.
Data from Nielsen Online sheds some new light on the matter that is so important to merchants—online and offline—during the busy holiday shopping season. In an online survey of nearly 1,000 shoppers, 81% indicated that the ability to shop anytime during the day was why they [...]
Filed under: Comparison shopping, E-business, Online merchants, Online shopping | Tagged: Online shopping, shop online, survey | Leave a Comment »
At the congress I attended in München, I was struck by a presentation of Jeff Hunt from Scene7. He stressed the fact that manufacturers spend millions of dollars making great images of all their products (to use in print or tv commercials) but then let e-tailers and comparison engines use crappy images on the internet. [...]
Filed under: Comparison shopping, E-business, Online merchants, Online shopping | Tagged: images, manufacturers, Online shopping | Leave a Comment »
Sergey Brin just introduced its new open source mobile software platform Android. I can explain what the Android platform is all about, but it guess it is much better to take a look at the Youtube video:
Google has set aside 10 million dollar to reward software developers who have written great [...]
Filed under: In the news, Internet ideas | Tagged: Google Android, open source mobile platform | Leave a Comment »
eBay may be the mystery bidder behind a possible takeover of its smaller UK rival QXL Ricardo, which yesterday confirmed it had received a bid approach. Shares in QXL Ricardo rose 10.6 per cent to £16.70 after the announcement, giving the online auctioneer a capitalisation of £771 million. That is still [...]
Filed under: E-business, Funding & acquisitions, In the news, Online shopping | Tagged: eBay, QXL Ricardo, takeover | Leave a Comment »
According to a study carried out by comScore, the European region recorded its largest ever Internet audience in September with a 5-percent year over year growth, reaching 226.7 million unique visitors age 15 or older. Russia had the fastest growing online audience this period, increasing 23 percent to 14.6 million unique visitors, followed by Spain, [...]
Filed under: E-business, Internet statistics | Tagged: comscore, European Internet users, european statistics, World Metrix | Leave a Comment »
Interesting stuff always happens while you are away! Just back from an e-commerce congress in Munchen and the news of Dexcom taking over Coolblue (controlling stake) is finally out. I heared rumours about this take-over in the beginning of August, but did not want to affect the negotiations. Read my post of the 22nd [...]
Filed under: E-business, Funding & acquisitions, In the news, Online merchants | Tagged: Coolblue, Dexcom, Dixons, Dynabyte, takeover | Leave a Comment »
