Just as people increasingly search for shopping products on Amazon rather than Google, Facebook Home could siphon more people to Facebook.
The FatLens search engine interface is optimized for shopping search.
Leading brands and major retailers use tools from the company: where-to-buy, product search engines, shopping engines and Facebook platform services.
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Taobao, a unit of Alibaba Group, announced on Tuesday that it was beta testing a shopping search engine called Etao.
Although Google posed the move as a way to improve the quality of listings, merchants squawked that this would raise their costs to appear in shopping search results.
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Other products being put out to pasture include the company's Building Maker, Cloud Connect, Apps Script's GUI builder and five UiApp widgets, Search API for shopping and the CalDAV API (for developers who aren't whitelisted, that is).
Not the ones about frustrated shoppers taking their business elsewhere frequently to competitors but rather the fact that such a huge portion of businesses have either failed to recognize or failed to act upon the blindingly obvious trends toward mobile search, mobile shopping, and mobile purchasing.
The major search engines now use shopping "bots" (for robot) to scour the Web for the best deal.
Many feared the company would dominate search, entertainment and shopping on the web.
Local consumers now heavily rely on search engine power when shopping locally.
It has released Same Store Sales (SSS) data for Amazon, eBay, comparison shopping and search on a monthly basis from December 2011 to December 2012.
In April, U.S. Internet users did about 80 million searches using Google's shopping-search site, while eBay and Amazon handled about 900 million and 335 million searches respectively, according to research firm comScore Inc.
Local Scout provides suggestions and prioritized local search results on restaurants, shopping and things to do so you can live like a local no matter where you are.
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In addition, Microsoft showed an update to Bing Maps that enables indoor search, such as within shopping malls, and a Google Goggles-like service called Bing Vision that lets users scan products like books to find quick links to product reviews, prices and vendors.
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As analysts, brand managers and store owners (not to mention yours truly) try to tease out the trends that will convert browsers to buyers in 2013, Manz took a moment to talk to FORBES about an often overlooked, but critically important, part of the shopping experience: search.
The XT780 brings Social TV and media, Google Play, web search, e-mail, shopping, news and online videos straight to users' fingertips.
The move will also affect how the results from the 10-year-old Google Shopping site appear in the main search engine.
Outlet centers provide a one-stop shop that offers great brands at a value price, in one location, in contrast to shopping online where consumers have to search for deals for their favorite brands individually.
As Google expands its display offerings, its huge base of search customers will take advantage of one-stop shopping for a full range of online advertising.
That could cause Google to lose even more search traffic to Amazon as consumers realize that Google Shopping does not provide a truly useful way to compare product options.
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Before the change, when people searched for "cameras, " for example, the top-five most popular cameras from the shopping page often would appear underneath a few search-results links.
Although there is not yet a recall in China, major online shopping platform Taobao has blocked Meiji baby formula from its search results, reports the China Daily.
After Thursday's announcement, those links will eventually appear above the main search results page with larger images of relevant products, suggesting the shopping site could see a bump in Web traffic.
In its peace agreement with Brussels, which would be legally binding for a period of five years, Google promises to make users in Europe "clearly aware" when promoting its own specialist search services -- such as those for restaurants, finance and shopping.
Overture's business is based on selling shopping information, unlike Google's more general variety of search.
Tancer is even working with researchers at Stanford to explore a new consumer confidence estimate based on search terms like "gas prices" and visits to thrifty comparison-shopping sites, which have climbed in response to this year's economic pain.
In its Holiday Shopping Inspiration Survey, popular shopping site CatalogSpree found that 74% of consumers plan to search online in order to gain ideas and inspiration for building out their wish lists and 69% plan to use digital catalogs.
Other Chinese spin-off brands of popular American websites have faced success from going public in America, such as Youtube-esque Youku (NYSE: YOKU), shopping site Dangdang (NYSE: DANG), and digital search engine Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU).
Google has been accused in both Europe and the United States of using its dominant position in search to unfairly promote its own products and services -- from travel and shopping comparison engines to advertising and mapping.
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