Two New Comparison Engines: Glimpse.com and Whatsbuzzing.com

[mandy]

From ChannelAdvisor CEO Scot Wingo's CSE Strategies blog:

Frank Han, formerly of eToys, launched Glimpse yesterday.  Glimpse targets women in their 20s and 30s who don't care about bargain shopping and want to browse by styles worn by well-known celebrities.  Women can also browse by designer, "featured stores" and "hot trends."...

Whatsbuzzing.com, a site recently launched by parent company Kriyari, uses technology that brings shoppers directly to  a merchant's storefront.

In theory it makes sense.  On the technical side, all you have to do is provide an iFrame or something directly to the  merchant's product page.  This eliminates feeds and the delays encountered there.  And shoppers who have affinities for retail brands essentially get a dashboard of their favorite stores in which to browse...

full article: http://www.csestrategies.com/cse/2007/04...es_on.html

Glimpse.com: http://www.glimpse.com
Whatsbuzzing.com: http://www.whatsbuzzing.com

[mandy]

Update: Glimpse has been acquired by TheFind:

Today TheFind announced an acquisition of Glimpse with a simultaneous relaunch of Glimpse's site.  Here's the quick lowdown:

    * Glimpse will continue to be run as a separate site focused on women's fashion searching from "trendy" stores.  Currently Glimpse offers up products from 300 stores spanning clothing, accessories, jewelry, health and beauty categories.  This differs from TheFind, where the site's primary goal is to serve product searches from across all stores on the Web.
    * TheFind powers Glimpse's product search engine.
    * TheFind's existing Glam advertising relationship will extend onto the Glimpse property.
    * Acquisition details weren't disclosed.

full article: http://www.csestrategies.com/cse/2007/08...quire.html