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Quick- name as many other companies in this market as you can. Heck name a single product comparison shopping search engine.

hawski 5y ago
From the top of my head: Ceneo, Cenowarka, Idealo, Skąpiec.
bduerst 5y ago
Amazon, Ebay, Shopify pages, etc. It doesn't really matter because google shopping is (or was?) just search ads with pictures. Every item shown was set up and paid for in Ads IIRC.
corecoder 5y ago
Well, there are all those suggested by Google – oh, wait.
mvdwoord 5y ago
idealo.de tweakers.net/pricewatch .. in my corner of this earth. There were / are plenty. Google's idea of being the only game in town is mostly marketing for almost all of their products.
- josefx 5y ago
  geizhals.de might also qualify.
  - sho_hn 5y ago
    Was going to post this: Geizhals is amazing, especially to understand and browse variants of the same product. Their database is wonderful.
keewee7 5y ago
PriceRunner is big in Denmark.
auxym 5y ago
I used to use shopbot.ca but it became fully useless around 2 or 3 years ago.
slac 5y ago
kelkoo, prisjakt.nu, pricerunner.se
seanwilson 5y ago
Not commenting on Google, but the problem with monopolies is you don't know what other and potentially better products might exist now if there was fair competition. Companies aren't going to fund a competing product when they know they're against a powerful monopoly. "But the company being accused of having a monopoly has the best product and I like it" was said about Windows too when they were locking out competition. It's short-sighted.
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lostmsu 5y ago
https://market.yandex.ru https://market.yandex.ru (only in Russian). Exists for over 10 years. Was my to go place to shop for electronics due to extensive filtering. It actually still is even after moving to US: I just pick the device there, then order on BestBuy/Amazon/NewEgg.
berkes 5y ago
kieskeurig.nl/be, beslist.nl, kelkoo; all of which are relatively popular in just the Netherlands. Those are the few that survived by focusing on tiny niches; in this case a tiny geographic and language-demography.
m4rtink 5y ago
Heureka and zbozi.cz are the big ones we use in Czech Reoublic.
- bonzini 5y ago
  When I lived in Czech Republic the local sites for maps (maybe mapy.cz??) and email (seznam.cz) were still quite strong. Is it still the case?
  - m4rtink 5y ago
    Yep & there are now more sites like news (seznam zpravy) and video streaming (stream.cz, mall.tv). :)
hoseja 5y ago
heureka.cz It's really nice to have thriving local internet.

hawski 5y ago

From the top of my head: Ceneo, Cenowarka, Idealo, Skąpiec.

bduerst 5y ago

Amazon, Ebay, Shopify pages, etc. It doesn't really matter because google shopping is (or was?) just search ads with pictures. Every item shown was set up and paid for in Ads IIRC.

corecoder 5y ago

Well, there are all those suggested by Google – oh, wait.

mvdwoord 5y ago

idealo.de tweakers.net/pricewatch .. in my corner of this earth. There were / are plenty. Google's idea of being the only game in town is mostly marketing for almost all of their products.

josefx 5y ago
geizhals.de might also qualify.
- sho_hn 5y ago
  Was going to post this: Geizhals is amazing, especially to understand and browse variants of the same product. Their database is wonderful.

keewee7 5y ago

PriceRunner is big in Denmark.

auxym 5y ago

I used to use shopbot.ca but it became fully useless around 2 or 3 years ago.

slac 5y ago

kelkoo, prisjakt.nu, pricerunner.se

seanwilson 5y ago

Not commenting on Google, but the problem with monopolies is you don't know what other and potentially better products might exist now if there was fair competition. Companies aren't going to fund a competing product when they know they're against a powerful monopoly. "But the company being accused of having a monopoly has the best product and I like it" was said about Windows too when they were locking out competition. It's short-sighted.

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lostmsu 5y ago

https://market.yandex.ru https://market.yandex.ru (only in Russian). Exists for over 10 years. Was my to go place to shop for electronics due to extensive filtering. It actually still is even after moving to US: I just pick the device there, then order on BestBuy/Amazon/NewEgg.

berkes 5y ago

kieskeurig.nl/be, beslist.nl, kelkoo; all of which are relatively popular in just the Netherlands. Those are the few that survived by focusing on tiny niches; in this case a tiny geographic and language-demography.

m4rtink 5y ago

Heureka and zbozi.cz are the big ones we use in Czech Reoublic.

bonzini 5y ago
When I lived in Czech Republic the local sites for maps (maybe mapy.cz??) and email (seznam.cz) were still quite strong. Is it still the case?
- m4rtink 5y ago
  Yep & there are now more sites like news (seznam zpravy) and video streaming (stream.cz, mall.tv). :)

hoseja 5y ago

heureka.cz It's really nice to have thriving local internet.