Amazon.com to offer links to other retailers
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,29589,00.html
Amazon.com will make use of its Junglee comparison-shopping technology
to allow customers to shop other sites on the Web. The company, however,
is so far keeping mum on details.
"We want to be a leading destination for e-commerce where people can buy
almost anything they want to buy on the Net," said spokesman Bill Curry
[...]
Curry said Amazon is not concerned that its shopping agent won't be
available for the prime retail season of the year, the pre-Christmas
rush.
"We don't want to do anything prematurely that would cause a
less-than-wonderful shopping experience," He said. "We're in this for
the long haul, not for
fourth-quarter sales." [...]
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Yes, but this is FoRK, where the news happens early.
In reality, Shop the Web goes live at 12:01am, Tuesday Dec 8.
At least, that's what my source says.
/cco
"Why? Why not? After last week's conflagration, it's nice to know that
FoRK is still a few minutes (3%?) ahead of the rest of the world."