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Amazon.com announces 18% increase in sales Q4
Despite a weakened U.S. economy, Amazon.com announced a net sales increase of 18% to $6.70 billion. Up from $5.67 billion in Q4 2007. This comes as a surprise to Wall Street. This large increase was triggered by holiday discounts and came at the expense of lower profit margins. The loss in profit margin makes [...]
Click fraud at an all-time high
An article published on CNET News, by Stephen Shankland, describes how armies of compromised computers have driven click fraud to an all-time high in Q4 of 2008. The industry average for click fraud rose over 17% according to the latest ratings provided by Click Forensics.
Humans can click on ads, but increasingly fraudsters turn to botnets, the swarms of [...]
Become.com makes 2009 OnMedia 100 List
Become.com has been named to the 2009 OnMedia 100 list and will be awarded at the 2009 OnMedia 100 Conference in February. If you are unfamiliar with OnMedia be sure to check them out. This award is given to private and emerging technology companies based on growth, market opportunity, and quality.
Become.com was nominated for [...]
ChannelAdvisor Announces Restructuring
ChannelAdvisor has become a leader in ad channel management solutions and accomplishes this by integrating software and technology to help merchants maximize profits through various e-commerce marketing channels, such as eBay.com, Amazon.com, various comparison shopping engines, and search engines. A pretty good service if you want to outsource your data feed management.
ChannelAdvisor’s customers averaged 7% [...]
Shopzilla - Comparison Shopping
Shopzilla.com has been in the comparison shopping biz since 1996. Today, Shopzilla gets millions of visitors each month and still growing. In fact, Shopzilla is a top 50 U.S. Web property. Check out the press center for more about Shopzilla.
This comparison engine allows shoppers to quickly and easily find, compare, and buy anything, sold by [...]
Google Product Search
Have you done a Google search lately and noticed product listings or news results located at the top of the page? Do you see a competitor’s products being listed above that number 1 ranking you worked so hard for? Universal Search results blend your typical search results with news, images, video, products, etc, and is [...]
Comparison Shopping For Beginners
Comparison shopping engines are websites that display product listings in an way that allow searchers to browse, compare, and research multiple products before deciding to which to buy. There are several large comparison engines - here’s a few - Shopzilla.com, NexTag.com, and PriceGrabber.com. Everyone seems to have a comparison shopping engine these days - AOL, MSN, Yahoo, CNET, etc. The larger sites combine every category imaginable and provide search across all of them, but there are smaller niche comparison shopping engines that focus on a single category or product, like lenspricecompare.com. Some shoppers may use several shopping engines before finally deciding to make a purchase.