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November 5, 2009
Google Launches Commerce Search for Online Stores
Google has announced the availability of Commerce Search. It's a search engine that e-commerce sites can place on their sites, effectively leveraging Google Search for their product offerings.
Commerce Search is cloud-based, meaning that Google hosts it. This removes the burden of hosting commerce search by e-commerce companies, which can be useful to avoid problems associated with spikes of traffic - such as the holidays.
Commerce Search is not free. You must contact a sales rep to get started.
There are three upcoming webinars to learn more about Commerce Search. They are:
November 12, 2009 (12 PM PST) Sign Up
November 17, 2009 (8 AM PST) Sign Up
December 3, 2009 (10 AM PST) Sign Up
In the meantime, check out this video about Commerce Search that Google put together:
Posted by Nathania Johnson on November 5, 2009 11:38 AM
Comments
Nathan Schubert November 5, 2009 3:44 PM
The reason this will cost money is because it is likely the one place they will not make money off of ads (I don't see them asking money for the majority of their services, ever). If you were an Ecommerce company, would you want ads in your store? Probably not. They are selling their search technology for people that will be making money - it makes sense for them to get a piece of it since no ad revenue will be tied to it.
John November 5, 2009 11:01 PM
a online business must be treated like a business. Working from home has so many distractions. You must look at your schedule and decide on how much time do you have to devote to your online business. Regardless, if it is 30 min. or 5 hours a day, you must plug it into your schedule and be committed to working it everyday.
Rachale Kelley November 7, 2009 3:19 AM
seems like a good idea, wonder what its like in practice.
Canvas prints November 22, 2009 5:35 AM
this is great news
but for those who pay attention to the online business must look at their schedule and decide on how much time do they have to devote to they online business.
Henry December 1, 2009 2:05 AM
Seems to me that Google is looking for more ways to monetize their visitors which of course makes perfect sense. I wonder how this will influence the general SERP landscape; will ECommerce sites still be indexed in general search results or will this act as more of an eBay for Google? GBay? Heh. Sorry. Pun totally intended.