Product Search Engine B5M Launches Shopping Tool
TechWeb, 11/06/12
Shanghai-based product search engine B5M recently announced the launch of "Bang 5 Tao," a price comparison browser plugin that lets users compare prices across multiple online shopping sites. Once customers have installed the free plugin from B5M.com, they can easily view prices and customer comments from multiple websites when browsing product listings on e-commerce sites like 360Buy.
Bang 5 Tao supports all top-10 e-commerce sites, including 360Buy, TMall, and 51buy, and uses price data from more than 600 B2C sites through its third-party price comparison engine.
The plugin supports internet Explorer, 360 Extreme Explorer, Google Chrome, Sohu's (Nasdaq: SOHU) Sogou browser, Opera, and Safari. During the week-long beta-testing period, Bang 5 Tao was downloaded more than 10,000 times.
A spokesperson for the product said that B5M plans to add personalized recommendations based on customers' browsing history, employing real-time data-gathering and statistical analysis of users' shopping interests and habits for optimized search results at the touch of a button. Another feature will allow users to share products they like to their Sina (Nasdaq: SINA) Weibo microblog accounts or Tencent (0700.HK) QZone blogs.
Keywords: vertical search e-commerce search e-commerce Internet B2C B5M online search
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