I used to work for Google in the states and was surprised to see the recent announcement bringing Froogle to Australia. At least Froogle was the original product name. Now known as Google Product Search, here's a link with more details:
http://googlemerchantblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-shopping-arrives-in-australia.html The surprising part was the huge amount of time for the product to roll out beyond North America (originally launched back in 2002). Its here now but not sure its getting all that much attention compared to sites pulling people in searching directly for pricing using regular search and finding sites like shopbot however. You all must have seen systems like http://shopsavvy.mobi/ that allow you to scan the bar code of the product you would like to do a price compare on. It provides prices based on stores around you (and shows the distance to) and also through online retailers. I have often been in store and with a scan and literally a couple clicks ordered instead through Amazon and had the package show up the next morning. Would love to see both the local scanning application comparing local Oz stores and the local online stores ready to rapid ship across Australia. I am still seeing Australian based low cost online warehouse store with 7 day deliveries - either solve this locally or hand the market to Amazon. Andrew. On Jun 10, 6:55 am, Matthew Ho <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, Google =p > > I saw a demo of Google Commerce search, and as part of this they > demo'd Google Shopping back in Feb. So I'd def consider this before > building your service. > > It looks like a getprice service. To put it crudely, it sucks in > pricing data from other websites and spits it out when you search. I > think there is a way to feed in your data like with Google Search via > RSS, XML, etc... > > I actually told them with this platform they should move into two > areas: > > 1. Travel ticketing - compare flights and accomodation pricing. > > 2. Event ticketing - find prices from all different concerts, venues > regardless of website. Become a one stop shop. > > Well Google ended up buying ITA, which is kinda a wholesale travel > ticketing and they just won their court case. it was a no brainer they > would do this. > > They also just recently bought an electronics feature comparison > website as well. So you can search by feature and not price eg search > for laptops with 14 inch screens and 2GB. > > If you can get the RSS/XML feeds, look at using Yahoo Pipes - I'm a > big fan of it. > > Goodluck Ali! > > Cheers, > > Matt Ho > Airbnb > @inspiredworlds > > On Jun 9, 10:15 pm, Jeromy Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Ali, > > > Chris Hitchen fromhttp://www.getprice.com.au/was/ison this list. > > They were a startup before being acquired by News in 2010. > > > There's countless sites like these in the technology niches, just > > search for "ram price australia" to be overwhelmed with them. > > > A challenge for you is getting cooperation from the site owners; you > > may note may website terms of service disallow crawlers/scraping and > > claim copyright of the photos and descriptions. Others seems to have > > navigated these risks though. > > > It's an area that could do with a beautiful disruptive solution. > > > regards, > > Jeromy Evans -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e1303508d?hl=en%3Fhl%3Den No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
