The recommendation engine Strands has released a new “Plug-and Play” product recommendation service that will allow online retailers to generate Amazon-like recommendations. eCommerce providers can implement the service through either the site’s API or with a widget plug-in, and Strands says that setup should take as little as 30 minutes.
Earlier this month Strands launched its flagship site, Strands.com, which sets out to “help people discover new stuff”. The new plugin aims to do the same for external eCommerce sites, while increasing profits in the process. The new service will be available with either a flat monthly fee or through a revenue share program.
I think we need more of people oriented search results and general shopping portals. Google is too general and Amazon.ebay etc are too focussed
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I wish them luck. Writing a generic recommendation system with high quality is very difficult. Usually you need to customize the software at a fairly low level for a given product area to have it be useful. 55M funding sounds like a big number for a software product. Good luck guys!
We may as well be reading prweb.com. Why not do something original and post your daily twitter bash?
This space sure is competitive! I count 10+ firms all over-financed and promising same results. Isn’t this a commodity yet?
Jason,
Is there a Wordpress Based Plugin?
55 million funding smh
dot com bust cant come fast enough
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