Thu 5 Nov 2009
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Google have just launched Google Commerce Search – which “is nothing short of an all-inclusive e-commerce software package” for retailers.
There’s been some excitement on various news blogs.
Google Commerce Search is hosted in the cloud, meaning it lives online, so e-commerce sites can get up and running quickly. Using a cloud search tool will also help site owners meet the rise in demand from the holiday rush without having to devote extra time or resources to worrying about their capacity or infrastructure. Online retailers are free to focus on their business, while Google focuses on search, and shoppers can find what they need faster. GOOGLE
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When combined with Google Checkout — as shown in the introductory video (also embedded below) — this is nothing short of an all-inclusive e-commerce software package, SearchEngineLand says.
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Leveraging Other Google Products: Google promises integration with other Google products like Google Analytics and Google Product Search. Using Commerce, retailers can measure clicks, conversion rates, number of transactions, average order value and other data via Google Analytics. And e-commerce vendors can provide a single feed of products and catelogue items that will power Commerce and indexing of their products on Google Product Search. Product Search (formerly Froogle) was blends shopping results with Google search, TechCrunch comments
Looks promising.


This is great for someone who has a Google store.
Free? “Pricing starts at $50,000 per year.” …….That’s 50 THOUSAND!
Oops – I totally misread that! Nice spot Gareth….
Yeah, not exactly aimed at the mass market. I’m not sure which retailer that would pay $50,000 starting annual fees wouldn’t have their own custom solution?
-Daniel
lol – I guess you were just testing us
“some might say”