Sunday, July 4, 2010

Integration of Product Reviews on Google

Google is entering more into the semantic web by just brute force. Lately it has integrated product ratings and reviews from sources like:

--Amazon.com
--Overstock.com
--ePinions.com

Besides these large eCommerce sites, Google has also integrated reviews from different vendors through review engines such as Bazaarvoice.

So, when you do a search on Google product search, you will see full-length reviews, here is a sample link:
http://www.google.com/products?q=toy

Searching on Google.com will show snippet of a vendor's review content and linking back to the vendor's site.

In this regard, Google is definitely beefing up shopping related searches and compete with Microsoft Bing in terms of shopping search.

I think some day, eCommerce sites might be able to submit reviews directly to Google.

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