Google Commerce Search 2.0 Launched

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Google Commerce Search 2.0 Launched [googleblog.blogspot.com]

To help retail sites get ready for the summer shopping season, today we're launching Google Commerce Search 2.0 for retailers in the United States and United Kingdom. The new version of Google Commerce Search provides a better experience online for shoppers and greater control-with immediate ROI-for retailers.

Google Commerce Search, first launched a little over six months ago, is an enterprise-grade website search solution hosted in Google's cloud and designed specifically for online retailers.

we're making the benefits of Google Commerce Search 2.0 available to a wider range of retailers by introducing a pricing model that starts at $25,000/year.

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[akmac]

Has anyone here used this program that would be willing to share their results? I'm curious how much value google is adding, or if they are repositioning themselves to be compensated for a service they used to provide for free via the regular serps.

Nothing wrong with that-I'm thankful for the years of free service.

They are advertising in their case study a revenue increase of 6.4%, *SO at a starting cost of $25,000, you need to have existing revenue of at least $375,000/yr for a 6.4% increase to cover the cost of the program.

Definitely not designed to woo the smaller players.

Anyone pony up yet?

*I'm using the 6.4% number from their case study as a base line. Obviously, they don't/can't guarantee this result for everyone. Generally, case studies represent a best case scenario- so adjust your expectations accordingly.

[digitalv]

Since this is an internal site search centered around a product database, I don't really see how anyone would benefit from this. Most shopping carts/ecommerce platforms are already going to have all of the search capabilities built-in, and as long as your indexes are set up properly at the database level they're just as fast and useful as a Google search including shopping within a price range, product popularity, etc.

Is this going to be a bomb, or am I missing something?

[fabulousyarn]

I guess it depends on what you define as a bomb. For them, someone pony-ing up 25grand seems like a great idea. But, hullo, 25,000 for a 'better experience". Like I said -Hullo? You can buy a lot of usability for 25,000.