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September 13, 2005

Be an Empowered (mobile) Shopper

On the heels of the release of Yahoo! Shopping APIs, we at Yahoo! Shopping have developed our own application based on those very web services. It's a great example of the innovation that can happen when building on our open APIs.

We're delighted to announce the availability of our new Shopping Search on Mobile. Yahoo! Shopping Search on Mobile (Beta) allows you to price compare product prices from your mobile phone, accessing our database of millions of offers.

Simply enter http://shopping.yahoo.com into your WAP 2.0-enabled browser, search for a product, and start comparing. Check your phone's user manual to see if it's WAP 2.0-enabled.

The Yahoo! Shopping APIs can be easily used by any developer. We're looking forward to many more cool and innovative sites and applications to be developed on top of these Web Services. Let us know if you've already developed something great, we'd love to see it.

Feel free to give us your feedback on this beta release. Get hacking!

Ben Strong,
Sr. Product Manager
Yahoo! Shopping

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Comments

'Locking up' my e-mail screen until I have had time to read the stupid ad with my Yahoo Calendar reminders SUCKS. Whoever thought of that is a control phreak and not even fit for the mail room. If it continues, I will not only close my free Yahoo account, but also my PAID SBC Yahoo account. Yahoo has too much competition to get away with pulling shi* like that. All it does, as you can see, is tick people off. Linda Shogren, 27 Sep 05

Posted by: Linda | September 27, 2005 06:57 AM

Yahoo Shopping is no longer worth a damn since they got rid of their price sort and other type of sorts. Why would I use a site where it is no longer easy to find out who sells for the best price? Duhhhh! Amazing how stupid you can be. I will no longer shop there.

Posted by: Jack Wenner | June 15, 2006 10:30 AM

Idiots! In their "new and improved" format they got rid of their various sorts by price, etc. Why use them now, when I can still get price and other sorts from Froogle and Ebay? It's easier for me to buy the cheapest product there than from Yahoo Shopping anymore.

Posted by: Mark Sanchez | June 15, 2006 10:33 AM

Hi,

I'm a Product Manager for Yahoo! Shopping. I'm sorry to hear the removal of the Sort by Price feature caused so much frustration. I want to let you know that we hear your comments. We’ve also heard from other users who miss the feature, so we are going to bring the feature back. You should see it on the site some time in the next week.

We removed price sort in response to some problems we found, but we're addressing those issues now. When it comes back it will function like you remember, and you'll continue to see more improvements over time.

Thanks for your input, and happy shopping.

-Ken

Posted by: Ken | June 19, 2006 01:48 PM