CheapFlights Founders Launch Retro Deals Site CheapToday
Xconomy — ... company’s co-founder and chairman. “Our mission is to help consumers find the best deals, wherever they are. We’re excited about the simplicity of it—nobody else is doing exactly this.” Shopping sites are a venerable and popular category on the Web, and they do go through periodic reinventions. Purely automated comparison shopping portals like Become, PriceGrabber, Shopping.com, Shopzilla, and Froogle (now Google Product Search) are seeing new competition lately from user-driven sites like ...

Tax and shipping costs coming to Google Product Search
Webware.com — ... Nobody likes to find a good deal that ends up being a bad one because of exorbitant shipping costs. In the jungle of online retailers indexed in Google's Product Search (formerly Froogle) nothing is more common. To solve that problem, ...

Google Makes it Easier To Get Found in Product Search
WebProNews Feed — ... , condition, or brand to help increase visibility for relevant queries. The holiday season is starting whether you're ready or not, so if you intend to sell through Google Product Search , I wouldn't waste much time making any adjustments that will increase that visibility. ...

Five Ways To Boost Google Product Search Sales
WebProNews Feed — ... on the Official Google Base Blog. Google Product Search The five tips they are now offering include: - Submit tax and shipping data for your items - Indclude unique product identifiers - Use effective titles - Write accurate descriptions - Submit your feeds frequently Submit Tax and Shipping Data Google provides two ways to submit this data: 1. Set account-level default values in your Google Base account: These preferences will serve as the default values for all of your items. This is the easiest way to set up tax and shipping for your account. 2. Include item-level ...

25 Online Resources to Prepare You for Black Friday
ReadWriteWeb — ... Comparison Shopping Search Engines According to a recent study by Shop.org, 78 percent of retailers plan to offer free shipping at some point during the holiday season. This is great news for the budget conscious among us, but where do you find the best deals online? You start with price comparison search sites. Shopzilla Shopping.com PriceGrabber Bizrate Dealtime Google Product Search Brilliant Shopper If you do decide to go ...

Tax and Shipping Information in Google Product Search
Google Operating System — Google Product Search (formerly known as Froogle) added an option to restrict the results to sellers that offer free shipping. If you enter your location, the service also shows tax and shipping information for some of the products. ...

Nintendo Wii tops Google’s 2008 Top Searches on Google Product Search
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google put together some of the top 2008 searches on Google Product Search to help shoppers find popular gifts for their family and friends. Here’re the ...

Google Starts Blending Web And Shopping Search Results Again
TechCrunch — ... Looks like Google is rolling out more tests with integrating results from its Shopping / Product Search engine (former Froogle) in traditional web search queries, right before the start of the holiday period. This isn’t necessarily new (see this ...

ULTRACLAMP Is A Cheap Gift For Your Camera
Gearlog — ... My search began with the thought I'd like some way to affix my still or video camera to the car window. I'm still not 100% why--it's a guy thing. It's bred into me. There's little choice. I entered "clamp camera" into Google's still useful shopping engine then ...

PubCon South: Universal And Personal Search
WebProNews Feed — ... Jackie Bodine, Product Manager, Google, said many times you don't know ahead of time what the best result you want is. Google Universal Search: Comprehensiveness - images, maps, news, video, books, and more (not just Google content) Relevance - run every query against every index. Decide what to show only after they collect all data and then blend results in single ranked list. Presentation - summarize the content in the most efficient way possible and keeps results easily scan-able Google wishes: 3 themes: Improving relevance ...

Why Most Gadget Price Comparison Engines Fall Short [Prof. Dealzmodo]
Gizmodo — ... layout—it seems kind of text heavy and convoluted to me. On the other hand Shopzilla has taken a more Web 2.0 approach while Google Product Search stays true to the Google design mantra. In the end, this is really a matter of preference. ...

Microsoft Tries To Re-Energize Cashback By Plugging It Into Its Products Engine
TechCrunch — ... Search increased. Last fall, Microsoft reported a 30% growth in Cashback offers made to customers, with 20 of the web’s 50 top online retailers in the U.S. participating in the program. Live Search Products was launched in 2006 as a commerce-only search engine/shopping comparison engine to give users more relevant results when looking to buy items online. Live Search Products was launched to be a direct competitor to Froogle, which was reborn as Google Search Products. Microsoft’s Live Search name has gone through several rebranding efforts ...

Google Product Search now plays friendly with iPhone and Android
MobileCrunch — ... with products throughout the services suite, Google announced this morning that they’ve revamped the Google Product Search page for iPhone and Android. ...

Google Product Search Finally Useful as Mobile Service
ReadWriteWeb — ... that Google Product Search is now tightly integrated with mobile search results on the iPhone and Android. The new interface should make it easier to find price comparisons and customer reviews while on the go. ...

Google Product Search Formatted for Android, iPhone
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... announced a mobile-friendly version of its Product Search application, emphasizing its utility for iPhone and Android-powered devices, in an April 23 corporate blog posting. Google Product Search, which can be found here , allows users to type whatever they’re searching for – such as "server software" – into the search bar and receive results pulled from a variety of shopping sites. On their smartphone’s browser, users can navigate to Google.com, type in the name of a particular product, and then click or touch the "Shopping" link that appears in the search results. They ...

Google Product Search for iPhone and Android devices
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google Product Search for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices lets mobile users search for products on the go to get quick access to product information. To try, just go to Google.com in your browser, and try out Google Product Search for mobile. If you’ve already submitted items to Google Product Search, you don’t have to do anything extra to get your product information to show up on Google Product Search for mobile. If your items are not yet listed in Product ...

Google Product Search Makes its Way to Mobile
BIA/Kelsey Blog — ... Google announced yesterday that it has optimized Google Product Search for the iPhone and Android based phones. Google Product Search is the manifestation of Froogle, which allows users to compare products, prices and reviews. ...

TKG Data and Analysis: A Weekly Recap
BIA/Kelsey Blog — ... Google announced yesterday that it has optimized Google Product Search for iPhones and Android. Google Product Search (manifestation of Froogle) allows users to compare products, prices and reviews. The move to mobile is a smart one, given increased use of mobile devices for things like product search. ...

Google Product Search For Android Adds Barcode Scanning, Just As We Predicted
MobileCrunch — ... of Product Search for the iPhone and Android handsets. Near the tail-end of the article, we made the prediction that Google would add barcode scanning support to Product Search soon, as such services had ...

Google Product Search For Android Adds Barcode Scanning, Just As We Predicted
TechCrunch — ... of Product Search for Android handsets. Near the tail-end of the post, we postulated that Google would add barcode scanning support to Product Search soon. Such services have already ...

12 online tools for price-conscious shoppers
Webware.com — ... Google Product Search Formerly known as Froogle, Google's Product Search is a relatively useful tool for finding cheaper prices on desired products. It will return a good portion of the online stores currently selling a products that match up with your search terms. It also lists their seller ratings, based on customer reports. It's a nice tool, but it doesn't quite stand up to some of the more useful sites in this roundup. Consider Google Product Search a backup. ...

Google Adds Barcode Scanning to Android Product Search
AppScout — ... From there, anytime you're in front of a barcode--say, on a book, gadget, or video game in a store--open the app and center the red line on the barcode. As soon as the device reads it, a page will pop up on the device with Google Product Search results. For more info, check out Google's own ...

Get listed your Store Locations with Google Product Search
D' Technology Weblog — ... To help users find nearby store locations, and help merchants get foot traffic into their stores, Google Product Search now ...

Google Product Search ‘Best practices’
D' Technology Weblog — ... If you run an e-commerce site and you'd like your products to be eligible to be shown in Google search results, then check out "Product Search for Webmasters" video below. In addition to the basics on Product Search. ...

The Future of SERP: Death Knell for the 10 Blue Links? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... in how search results are presented. The four key upgrades they see coming to SERPs are: The integration of data or applications from third-party web sites will appear within the search engine. Bing does this extensively for some results, particularly on the “reference” tab. More search results that lead directly to commercial transactions. Google has been doing this for years with Froogle (now Google Product Search), and Bing puts a huge amount of focus on shopping, offering product ...

Google Product Search for Webmasters – Video
D' Technology Weblog — Here’s a video about Google Product Search for webmaster community. In it, Maile Ohye discuss the benefits of Product Search, suggest best practices when submitting a feed, and answer frequently asked questions: ...

Google's Special Snippets for Price Comparison Sites
Google Operating System — ... The feature would be more useful if Google allowed you to restrict the results to price comparison sites and if the results were better formatted, for example sorted by price. It's also surprising to see that Google doesn't integrate the results from it's own price comparison site, Google Product Search. ...

Performance-Based Pricing for SEO?
SearchEngineWatch Experts — ... getting a model in place that absolutely works on many levels. A Performance-Based SEO Effort First, you need to have very solid metrics. These metrics begin with at least 12 months of solid analytics data. Many times, I've partnered with a company and, upon closer inspection of their analytics installations, noticed that they have corrupted or inaccurate data. They either didn't break out their paid search traffic from their organic search traffic, or they didn't have things like Google Product Search broken out, or they didn't get tracking code on every page of their Web ...

Google Product Search Suggestions
Google Operating System — Google's product search engine started to show suggestions when you type a query. The suggestions are obtained by comparing your partial query with popular searches. ...

Google Adds Store Locator Feature to Product Search
WebProNews Feed — ... Google has launched a feature in Google Product Search for users to find merchants who have store locations. This means that people searching with Google Product Search will be able to get more information about the nearest store locations for a particular merchant. ...

20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches
The Mac Lawyer — ... and much more: Blog Search Book Search Scholar Catalogs Code Search Directory Finance Images Local/Maps News Patent Search Product Search Video ...

Four short links: 6 November 2009
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... -- "impossibly accurate barcode scanning". Uses Google Product Search to identify products that you scan using the camera on the phone. I remember Rael and I talking to Jeff Bezos about this years ago, before camphones had the resolution to decode barcodes. The future is here and it's $1.99 on the App Store ... (via ...

10 Apps All New Android Users Should Check Out
MobileCrunch — ... Description: Barcode reader is pretty much an Android must-have at this point. Lets say you’re perusing a book store and stumble across a book you’re interested in reading – but is it really worth what the nearest big chain book store wants for it? Scan the tag on the back into Barcode Reader, which will pass the details into Google Product Search for a price comparison. At worst, you’ll find out that you’re getting a deal; at best, you’ll save a ton. I’ve saved a few hundred bucks overall by way of Barcode-based ...

Google Product Search: Give Me Cashback or Give Me Death!
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... As I mentioned yesterday, I love Bing’s shopping engine. In no small part because I can earn some serious cashback. As long as I make sure I’m getting the lowest price in the first place, the cashback makes it worth using Bing. So, Google Product Search can wave all the new fancy features in front of me that it wants, if I ain’t getting a kickback, I ain’t using Google! OK, maybe some of you aren’t quite so price conscious as me. Maybe for you, shopping is more about the journey, than the ...

Can Cyber Monday redeem Black Friday?
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... As listings for genuine Cyber Monday sales and deals are scarce or ambiguous, it seems the best strategy for the day is to surf early and surf often. Sites begin sales days at different time based on location and policy, so some update as early as midnight. And bear in mind that stores are just as desperate as shoppers this year to stimulate their finances, so deals are likely to go hot and heavy for the entire Christmas season. Do a quick Google shopping scan before searching to ensure the price you’re about to pay is indeed the lowest. And if you know of any fantastic ...