become.com launch beta shopping search
DMNews.comChristine Blank of dmnews.com reports that:
"Become.com, a new search engine focusing on shopping-related information, launched in beta form yesterday....Become.com's Affinity Index Ranking technology produces more relevant results than other search engines, the company said, because it delivers comparison information beyond price, including reviews, buying advice and articles."
Formed by Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun - whose previous enterprises include the comparison shopping site mySimon.com.
Google Search Listing: Become.com
"Become: Be Smart. Be Thrifty. Just Be.
Next Generation Search Engine for Shopping."
Lean home page declares (as above) Become: Be Smart. Be Thrifty. Just Be. "The beta program is now open. You are invited to try our search engine for your shopping research."
Registration is required and the following stipulations apply:
"While we are in beta, we have the following limitations:
Each beta tester is limited to 50 queries per day.
You must be able to accept cookies.
Additionally, to participate in our beta program, you must agree to the following:
I will not use any automated systems to send queries to Become.com, nor will I use any means to scrape the Become.com site. "
Become: Site Owners: "BecomeBot is the user-agent for Become.com's web crawler... to prevent the BecomeBot from crawling everything in the /cgi-bin directory of your site, simply add two lines that say:
User-agent: BecomeBot
Disallow: /cgi-bin/ "
So far I cannot see evidence of a comparison facility...miss-spelt limosine churns up barrow loads of spam - irrelevent results...
posted by Jen @ 10:08 AM
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