Redmond, WA-based InfoSpace.com, a
provider of private label
solutions for content and commerce, this week launched ActiveShopper, an
integrated
commerce solution.
ActiveShopper is designed to change the way people shop on the Internet by
providing
integrated services that offer shoppers tools to research and buy a product in
one place.
The app provides the ability to search offline catalogs, online stores,
catalogs, and auction sites as well as find product reviews, discussion
groups, and competitive prices. InfoSpace.com said it expects to launch this
solution in the first half of 1999 and is currently in an internal pilot
program with Lycos, CMP Media, Xoom.com, TechWave and Catalog City.
ActiveShopper is a private label commerce solution for any Internet portal,
destination site or Internet appliance. It will contain thousands of products
from hundreds of merchants and can support millions of queries, InfoSpace.com
said. The company said it will tightly integrate ActiveShopper into its
current offerings and will make the service immediately available to its
network of more than 1,500 affiliate Web sites.
“Today, shoppers on the Internet are forced to go to many different sites to
get the information they need to research and buy a product, which can be very
frustrating,” said Naveen Jain, chairman and CEO of InfoSpace.com. “We are
leveraging the leadership and strength we have in aggregating and integrating
content and extending that to the commerce area. Now, our affiliates can offer
their users an integrated commerce solution, as they do now with our content
solution.”
Initial product categories to be included in the ActiveShopper service are
Apparel, Books and Literature, Communications, Computer Hardware, Computer
Software, Computer and Video Games, Consumer Electronics, Flowers and Cards,
Gifts and Candy, Home and Garden, Movies, Video and DVDs, Music, Office
Supplies and Equipment, and Toys and Games.