The Web’s Widest Selection of Products and Wiki Buying Guides Is Now Accessible on Your Phone
NEW YORK, NY — May 17, 2006 — ShopWiki, the complete shopping search engine and buying guide, today announced the launch of its mobile service, available on Webstore purchase.
ShopWiki Mobile Search provides a simple search box in which users can type exactly what they are looking for, including price ranges and product features such as megapixels, carats, pounds, and gigabytes. This natural language shopping search capability, unique to ShopWiki, provides accurate results on queries as complex as “digital camera 4 mp over $300” or “400-600 watt amplifier.”
With ShopWiki Mobile Search, shoppers get ongo access to some 60 million products crawled from more than 120,000 stores, the largest collection of products on the Internet. Unlike most shopping search providers, who rely on data feeds from retailers, ShopWiki uses advanced Web crawling and extraction technologies to index products.
Searching the most stores on the Web ensures mobile users will find the best pricing information for items like the “Rocky Mountain Slayer 30” bicycle or the “Magic Cook Kitchen” educational play set. With ShopWiki Mobile Search, shoppers can also consult more than 1,100 buying guides that provide buying information generated by ShopWiki users.
“Whether you’re shopping online or in a brickFounder and CEO. “With ShopWiki Mobile Search, shoppers get price comparisons and buying guidance from the Web’s most comprehensive resource – all on their mobile phones.”
'''About ShopWiki:''' ShopWiki is the complete shopping search engine, combining breakthrough search and Web crawling technologies with consumerfounder and former CTO Dwight Merriman, ShopWiki actively crawls the Internet to find and index products from more than 120,000 retail stores, offering consumers the widest selection on the Web. The site does not accept data feeds or charge for inclusion. ShopWiki is privately held and based in New York.
