Krillion, the retail search engine optimizer whose motto is “find national brands, locally,” is now getting 65,000 unique visitors per month and more than 200,000 page views to its appliances, the first of many planned verticals. A second vertical, still…
A new report, written by me and called “The Newspaper Online Shopping Report: Online Relationships with Retailers,” is out today. It is a fairly comprehensive work that gives readers a 360-degree view of what newspapers are doing (and should be…
Summary Research just released from Hitwise and WebCollage shows that shoppers are more likely to shop in stores and visit Web sites of retailers that provide comprehensive product information, including inventory data. This is a growing trend in the local…
ShopLocal, the shopping service owned by Tribune, Gannett and McClatchy, often gets overlooked in the glare of Amazon, eBay and the pricing comparison engines. But the service’s three networks are now getting over 200 million page views a month, which…
Do user reviews for sushi restaurants and promotions for Target and Lowe's really mix? Especially when the user reviews come from a highly defined community like Judy's Book? They may not, but Judy's Book is motivated to try to ride…
A new report from Accenture confirms much of what we already know to be true: that the majority of online product research leads to offline conversions. Specifically, it reported that 67 percent of survey respondents prefer to make purchases in…
The decline of their ad share with retailers has newspapers worried to death. But several execs speaking at the NAA Marketing Conference last week in Las Vegas said they can bring retailers back into the fold with special vertical sites.…
Krillion, a start-up with deep pockets from Hummer Winblad, launched the first iteration of its "localized search engine" today. The highly attractive, ad-supported service is kicking off with a dedicated appliance search. The next wave of localized searches will include…
Yahoo! Tech writes about some of the ways you can sniff out local post holiday deals on electronics. There will surely be a torrent of sales in the coming week as retailers try to move excess holiday inventory especially…
Last week we wrote about NearbyNow's new mobile product. Quoting myself: Today's announcement involves a mobile search platform that allows any mobile device user to send product queries via text to a mall's designated NearbyNow short code. Info will be…
Gary Price over at Search Engine Watch has a nice roundup of mobile shopping platforms. This intersects with local in some of the mobile shopping products announced within the past week. These include a mobile shopping SMS-based search platform launched…
Local shopping engine NearbyNow announced today that it will provide a mobile platform for mall shoppers to find products using mobile devices. NearbyNow works with shopping malls to get their product and inventory information online in a searchable fashion. It…
