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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
ITV (LSE: ITV) has let its PriceTerrier comparison website off the leash - and there's barely a mention anywhere of the ailing broadcaster . The service, which compares shopping products, financial services and holidays, is powered by Yahoo's ( NSDQ: YHOO ) Kelkoo , which itself looked perilously close to being sold off or scaled back this year - but you'd be hard-pressed to find the ITV name anywhere;...
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Nicolas Leroy (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
By writing my last post about the new design of PriceGrabber’s search result pages, I realized that I haven’t detailed the new product display we launched on Kelkoo in July. So let’s do it :) The previous product display was introduced in October’07 along with the full redesign of the Kelkoo site (See an example below [...]
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
ITV's (LSE: ITV) upcoming price comparison site will be a JV with Yahoo's ( NSDQ: YHOO ) Kelkoo , reckons NMA . The broadcaster was known to have been working on a Pricerunner-style site as part of its optimistic online growth forecasts, which were last week revised . Yahoo bought Kelkoo for a hefty €475 million in 2004, but in October started a process to give it "more independence" and "evaluate...
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Paris-based Drimki , an online real estate startup, has raised a seed round from Skype founders' Ambient Sound Investments and alarm:clock euro reports it had raised funding from the co-founders of Kelkoo. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. Founded in 2007 by internet and real estate vets, Drimki manages a platform'??containing over 80,000 Parisian buildings'??for real estate buyers and...
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Nicolas Leroy (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
In November 2007, Kelkoo Mobile was launched in France , followed by Norway and Sweden in March 08. Today, Kelkoo Mobile is officially available in all Kelkoo countries: UK: http://m.kelkoo.co.uk IT: http://m.kelkoo.it FR: http://m.kelkoo.fr DE: http://m.kelkoo.de ES: http://m.kelkoo.es NL: http://m.kelkoo.nl DK: http://m.kelkoo.dk NO: http://m.kelkoo.no SE: http://m.kelkoo.se Through this service,...
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E-commerce portal (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Effective Analysis Tool for Comparison Shopping Engines Posted By : Martin Wann To make potential customers spend money in their store, online merchants submit products and prices to almost all comparison sites. Here are some of them: Shopping.com, Shopzilla.com, Yahoo Shopping, MySimon, Kelkoo, [...]
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Nicolas Leroy (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Brian Smith has the scoop: Shopzilla now displays filtering options above the search results, when most of the CSEs still display them on a left column. However, Shopzilla is not the only CSE to display filters on the top. In Europe, Kelkoo and Twenga have implemented such display. When we launch the new Kelkoo redesign last [...]
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Nicolas Leroy (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
We can say there are two major patterns when browsing on a shopping engine: The product-based navigation - you browse among products, find an appealing product displayed with a price range; then you click on this product to get all offers from merchants. This pattern lets you compare prices for the exact same product among various [...]
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Nicolas Leroy (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
In February, Yahoo! announced SearchMonkey, a platform that allows publishers to enhance the display of their indexed pages on Yahoo! Search. Then, three weeks ago, Yahoo! has launched a preview of the SearchMonkey developer platform; as explained on the Yahoo! Search Blog: With this online tool, developers can build data services that can be used to [...]
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Alt Search Engines (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
New Appointments Boost Shopping Search Engine Twenga * Jean Fabrice Mathieu, currently CEO of online property portal, SeLoger.com, and former CEO of Kelkoo, appointed to Twenga’s Board of Directors * Thomas Sevege from TradeDoubler, joins as VP Sales, and Therese Torris of consulting firm Afferto, previously at Forester Research, appointed as VP Content * Twenga is [...]
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Start Up - The Book (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Kelkoo is a great case study. It was one, not to say the, success story of the Internet in France and even in Europe. It was acquired by Yahoo for €475M in 2004. It was extremely ambitious from its foundation and had an amazing pan-European strategy thanks to acquisitions in Spain, the UK and Scandinavia: [...]
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Nicolas Leroy (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
e-Consultancy has released the 2008 edition of its “Comparison Engines Buyer’s Guide 2008“. An article on its blog explains the major trends observed while doing this update. The slowdown of the economy doesn’t seem to affect CSEs: The announcement that Yahoo! is considering selling Kelkoo, as well as Experian’s plans to review the future of PriceGrabber, has [...]
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Gaj-It.com (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Overview A welcome addition to Sony’s current Sat Nav range, the super slick Sony NV-U83 Sat Nav isn’t just a pretty face. Jam packed with some delightful features, it’s a great Sat Nav for the ‘always-on-the-go’ driver. Click here to find the Cheapest Deals for the Sony NV-U83 Sat Nav on Kelkoo* For Cheapest [...]
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Gaj-It.com (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Find the cheapest Sony TV’s on Kelkoo* Find the cheapest Sony TV’s on PriceRunner* Creating some cinema magic in your home with perfect sound and amazing picture quality becomes second to none with the new Sony BRAVIA Theatre RHT-G900 and RHT-G1500 5.1 channel surround sound systems. ‘Stylish’ should be Sony’s second name because unlike other cinemas [...]
