On March 29, I wrote:
Dulance, according to Sergei, was a 2nd generation comparison engine because of the breadth of merchant coverage. While we’re still living in a 1st generation comparison engine world, I’m a believer that services like Dulance will soon become a powerful force in e-commerce. Shopzilla recognizes this as the company is supplementing its feeds with crawled results. Shopping.com as far as I’m able to tell, doesn’t recognize this. Shopping.com has the ability to crawl a site, but it charges $750 to do so…if Shopping.com believed in becoming a 2nd generation shopping search engine and providing the best shopping search experience possible, the company would cut this fee to just south of $0.01.
While Shopping.com didn’t listen to me and lower the fee to $0.00, the crawling service is now listed as having a $300 set up fee with a $20 monthly crawler maintenance fee. It’s a start.
