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Just because overall traffic increased 500% that doesn't imply a decrease if you don't know what the distribution of searches are. If most of that 500% were loo

Just because overall traffic increased 500% that doesn't imply a decrease if you don't know what the distribution of searches are. If most of that 500% were looking for sports scores for example, then a 227% increase would be very impressive. Without more detailed data I don't think you can draw any conclusions.

ewzimm 11y ago
Yes, that's what I mean about not knowing if aggregators got more or less popular over the last decade. I'm still not sure, but from a few searches, here's what I got: Google Shopping is the #1 shopping aggregator according to this site: http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/shopping-websites http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/shopping-websites The #2 Coupons.com, is going downhill fast: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/coupons.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/coupons.com The #3, Bizrate.com, is also going downhill fast: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bizrate.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bizrate.com So it does seem like Google Shopping is taking over traffic from other aggregators.
- merb 11y ago
  All 3 aren't widely used in the EU. Especially not in Germany where the people from the EU who said these things coming from. Also the biggest price aggregator from Germany, Austria and others, are still rising and rising according to Alexa. I mean less people go through searches to these sites however thats caused by the fact that they have a really easy name. What the EU government does is toxic. It does what it get's told by smaller companies that aren't satisfied with their sales. Thats more than toxic since it changes the free market, however thats what the european government always did, they don't make goods for the people they make goods for the money.
  - ewzimm 11y ago
    Google Shopping isn't usually accessed directly but rather through the main Google search. Good to hear that there are other ones rising too.
- dingaling 11y ago
  Not being familiar with any of those ( probably a sheltered UK life ), I went to www.coupons.com to see what it's about. At the bottom of the page is an About.. link, but they have infinite scrolling and I'm not fast enough to catch it. Quite an awful UI.
tyingq 11y ago
Some background that's related. http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/img/ftc-ocr-watermark.pdf http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/img/ftc-ocr-waterm...

ewzimm 11y ago

Yes, that's what I mean about not knowing if aggregators got more or less popular over the last decade. I'm still not sure, but from a few searches, here's what I got: Google Shopping is the #1 shopping aggregator according to this site: http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/shopping-websites http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/shopping-websites The #2 Coupons.com, is going downhill fast: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/coupons.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/coupons.com The #3, Bizrate.com, is also going downhill fast: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bizrate.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bizrate.com So it does seem like Google Shopping is taking over traffic from other aggregators.

merb 11y ago
All 3 aren't widely used in the EU. Especially not in Germany where the people from the EU who said these things coming from. Also the biggest price aggregator from Germany, Austria and others, are still rising and rising according to Alexa. I mean less people go through searches to these sites however thats caused by the fact that they have a really easy name. What the EU government does is toxic. It does what it get's told by smaller companies that aren't satisfied with their sales. Thats more than toxic since it changes the free market, however thats what the european government always did, they don't make goods for the people they make goods for the money.
- ewzimm 11y ago
  Google Shopping isn't usually accessed directly but rather through the main Google search. Good to hear that there are other ones rising too.
dingaling 11y ago
Not being familiar with any of those ( probably a sheltered UK life ), I went to www.coupons.com to see what it's about. At the bottom of the page is an About.. link, but they have infinite scrolling and I'm not fast enough to catch it. Quite an awful UI.

tyingq 11y ago

Some background that's related. http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/img/ftc-ocr-watermark.pdf http://graphics.wsj.com/google-ftc-report/img/ftc-ocr-waterm...