Red Carpet Launching Soon

by Brian Smith, on November 3rd, 2005


Ok, looks like RedCarpet, Inc. is close to launching. Again, no comment from IAC.

Most recent sleuthing leads to the Red Carpet site which states: “This site is building a commerce search engine that is expected to launch in late 2005.”

I looked up the WHOIS domain information and used a reverse phone lookup directory which lists the number as belonging to IAC Interactive Corporation with an associated address in Boulder, CO.

Well, search engines are known for crawling. If you’re a large online retailer, have you noticed any spiders hitting your site from RedCarpet? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

More Red Carpet posts:
Red Carpet Hiring – August 7, 2005
My Prediction – IAC will Acquire PriceGrabber – June 7, 2005
Rumor – IAC Launching Shopping Comparison Engine – May 25, 2005

Tags: Comparison Engines


Bronte Media » Pricegrabber Next? said

[...] s to be Barry Diller. Although he has said shopping comparison engines are over-priced and is developing his own. Perhaps the valuations have changed? Another guess might be Marchex, whose stock [...]

November 28th, 2005 at 10:02 am |

928-846-1097 said

This spider has been on my site for DAYS. I am concerned that it will cause trouble. In the last two days my site has been sluggish or flashes error pages when I navigate through the admin section. I hope this spider is not causing problems.

December 9th, 2005 at 9:49 am |

Zan said

> This spider has been on my site for DAYS. I am concerned
> that it will cause trouble.

Unless it is pulling pages from your site RAPIDLY, it should not cause a problem. I would expect Red Carpet to adhere to standard ‘good crawling’ crawling policies.

You can, of course, block them with your robots.txt file

December 20th, 2005 at 9:24 pm |

ComparisonEngines.com » Blog Archive » RedCarpet said

[...] n CJ, RedCarpet is referred to as a subsidiary of InterActiveCorp. More RedCarpet posts: Red Carpet Launching Soon – November 3, 2005 IAC Launching Shopping Comparison Engine – May 25, 2005 [...]

December 21st, 2005 at 2:33 pm |