A9 - Amazon search engine

[ProudPapa]

Does anybody know if Amazon is developing a PPC or other publisher programs?

Thanks in advance

[namestrands]

Amazon has been introducing new products to its Web Services Porfolio. Its API is one of the most praised out of all the APIs that have been seen over the past few years. The webservices system is built for publishers to make money, and I if I recall the figures were about 975,000 active Sellers and 120,000 active developers integrating the amazon services.

24% of Amazon Sales are made from its publishers. However in answer to your question the third party developers are more likely to launch such a program via a mashup application than Amazon doing it themselves.

I believe there is a startup company in the UK called inside C who have launched a contextual messenger application called "inside messenger" where as if you were to type in the name of an author or book while in a chat session it would automatically display the book.

The Web Services Publisher Program has been about since 2002, it is a fantastic program and they do claim that 90% of all publishers have sold at least one item in the past year.

http://www.ipoj.com/w8jwS (short link to the program)

[ProudPapa]

Amazon has been introducing new products to its Web Services Porfolio. Its API is one of the most praised out of all the APIs that have been seen over the past few years. The webservices system is built for publishers to make money, and I if I recall the figures were about 975,000 active Sellers and 120,000 active developers integrating the amazon services.

24% of Amazon Sales are made from its publishers. However in answer to your question the third party developers are more likely to launch such a program via a mashup application than Amazon doing it themselves.

I believe there is a startup company in the UK called inside C who have launched a contextual messenger application called "inside messenger" where as if you were to type in the name of an author or book while in a chat session it would automatically display the book.

The Web Services Publisher Program has been about since 2002, it is a fantastic program and they do claim that 90% of all publishers have sold at least one item in the past year.

http://www.ipoj.com/w8jwS (short link to the program)

Thanks for the link and the info... It always seemed to me that while Google / MS /Yahoo continue beat on each other / compete for market share in many areas, a company like Amazon may catch up and become a legitimate threat..then again so will the 13 year old kid tinkering in his parents garage

[namestrands]

The Little Kid Effect...

Ironically all of the programs you have mentioned have tried there own mashup API programs in some form of another trying to marry one technology with another - a convergance of concepts would be a better phrase, but none have been as successful as Amazons contribution whereas the others exposed there APIs in the form of Inventory and Numbers, non have come close to the added benefits of Amazons Programming Logic tied directly into the API..

No company has come close the this concept until now.. as Ebay Launches its improved API thats pure avant-garde.