Comments on: ShopWiki – CTO & Founder, Eliot Horowitz http://comparisonengines.com/2006/03/30/shopwiki-cto-founder-eliot-horowitz/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:27:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: spam http://comparisonengines.com/2006/03/30/shopwiki-cto-founder-eliot-horowitz/#comment-2857 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:08:44 +0000 http://www.comparisonengines.com/?p=371#comment-2857 shop wiki is nothing more than a spam scraper site on an industrial scale – no original content – grabs content from sites before Google realises which site the original content belongs to and can kill off your site by making google beleive YOU are copying from them !!!!!!!!!

these shop wiki sites will seriously affect your ranking and traffic

Opt out of shop wiki if you can,

]]> By: Kevin http://comparisonengines.com/2006/03/30/shopwiki-cto-founder-eliot-horowitz/#comment-433 Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:42:30 +0000 http://www.comparisonengines.com/?p=371#comment-433 Interesting model. I have a few questions though -

1. How does ShopWiki might be making sure it has access to all the sites. For e.g. Sites like amazon or walmart might not allow their sites to be crawled… what then?

2. If the Wikis are open to all, then isnt it open to spam as well? Or do they monitor it manually to keep it clean?

3. I see that products are not getting grouped properly. I guess, they might / should be working on some intelligent algorithms to ID unique identifiers to group products together

Would love to see some thoughts / feedback.
Kevin

]]> By: A. Vazzano http://comparisonengines.com/2006/03/30/shopwiki-cto-founder-eliot-horowitz/#comment-432 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:17:01 +0000 http://www.comparisonengines.com/?p=371#comment-432 Ok, so after discovering the guides, I’ve become somewhat addicted to them.

Check out this index:
http://www.shopwiki.com/wiki/Buying+Guide+Categories

That’s a lot of guides, and some of them are quite good. I can’t think of many sites that have this much info.

]]> By: Vic Berggren http://comparisonengines.com/2006/03/30/shopwiki-cto-founder-eliot-horowitz/#comment-431 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:28:50 +0000 http://www.comparisonengines.com/?p=371#comment-431 ShopWiki contacted me about the spidering issues I have been having… that’s good to see.

]]> By: A Vazzano http://comparisonengines.com/2006/03/30/shopwiki-cto-founder-eliot-horowitz/#comment-430 Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:12:01 +0000 http://www.comparisonengines.com/?p=371#comment-430 When you do a search a list of related buying guides appears under the search box, above the results. It’s not obvious. At all.

]]> By: Susan Hoffman http://comparisonengines.com/2006/03/30/shopwiki-cto-founder-eliot-horowitz/#comment-429 Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:55:42 +0000 http://www.comparisonengines.com/?p=371#comment-429 I found a lot of articles. Here is one that I liked http://www.shopwiki.com/wiki/Watches

There is also this page:
http://www.shopwiki.com/wiki/Directory

I was able to edit articles as well. Didn’t try creating a new one, but seems like i could.

]]> By: Vic Berggren http://comparisonengines.com/2006/03/30/shopwiki-cto-founder-eliot-horowitz/#comment-428 Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:55:35 +0000 http://www.comparisonengines.com/?p=371#comment-428 Yeah… Marks’ right. What Wiki?

]]> By: Mark Johnson http://comparisonengines.com/2006/03/30/shopwiki-cto-founder-eliot-horowitz/#comment-427 Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:05:41 +0000 http://www.comparisonengines.com/?p=371#comment-427 Is there anything “Wiki” about this site? I don’t see any wiki stuff at all. Also, has anyone ever done a comparison of who gets the best prices? It’s one thing to have a big crawl, it’s another to get good prices.

]]> By: Vic Berggren http://comparisonengines.com/2006/03/30/shopwiki-cto-founder-eliot-horowitz/#comment-426 Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:33:19 +0000 http://www.comparisonengines.com/?p=371#comment-426 Anyone else having problems with the Shop Wiki Crawler? That thing just kills a couple of my sites.

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