PriceGrabber.com New Intro Video

PriceGrabber.com is a Price Comparison Website founded in 1999 by former CEOs Kamran Pourzanjani and Tamim Mourad. The company also serves as the data source for numerous other shopping websites, including AOL Shopping, Bing Shopping, About.com's ConsumerSearch, iVillage, Comcast, Yahoo!, MSN Shopping and CNET. PriceGrabber.com claims to be the first comparison shopping engine to project tax and shipping cost information for a consumer during the price comparison process, hence offering a more complete view of final costs.

Bing Introduces Product Search and New Ad Formats: What it Means for Bing Ads Advertisers

On Friday, Aug 23 Rich Bowen on the Bing Ads Community posted an articel about the new Bing Product Search

Bing is introducing a new product search experience that will help consumers search less and do more. The new experience created by using consumer input and research, harnesses Bing’s index of 10’s of millions of individual products that have been organized by advanced machine learning to show relevant products directly in the main results page. This means that people searching for products will save time because they no longer need to navigate to a dedicated “shopping” experience to find what they’re looking for. Below we outline the steps you’ll need to take as an advertiser on Bing, to prepare for this change when it takes effect in the coming weeks.

Find it Faster with Bing Product Search

At Bing our central mission is to help you search less and do more. To that end, we’re constantly looking for ways to make your search experience more efficient. One of the central ways we do this is by better understanding what you are trying to get done and removing clicks and navigation that might stand in the way. With that in mind, we’re introducing a new product search experience that does just that.

Google Merchant Center FTP Server Update

On September 16, Google Base will be upgrading the Google Merchant Center FTP system and updating the IP addresses for our upload server (ftp://uploads.google.com).

Google Shopping New Mobile app

Google has launched Google Shopper 3.2, a new mobile version of Froogle, Google Base, Google Shopping.

Q&A about the Bing and Shopping Merger

Q) Why are you making this change right now?

A) We specifically chose this time of year to make the change because it represents the greatest
opportunity for our merchant base. The new placements will be available in Bing Shopping by
November 1st. If you want to have the opportunity to be featured in these positions, you need to act
now. Begin a relationship with Shopping.com if you don’t already have one by contacting
merchantsupport@shopping.com.

Google Products: Invalid Unique Product Identifiers

We were looing in our merchant dashboard on Google Products and noticed an error for "Invalid Unique Product Identifiers". As you should already know Unique Product Identifiers is probably the most important field in your feed as far as getting your feed processed.

If there is the slightest mistake, error or any kind of issue with the Product Identifier field your feeds wont get processed  So naturally when we saw this we got very concerned.