{"id":10869,"date":"2010-10-28T20:32:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T11:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=10869"},"modified":"2010-10-28T20:32:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T11:32:22","slug":"how-google-shopping-impacts-on-kakaku-coms-pricing-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/how-google-shopping-impacts-on-kakaku-coms-pricing-business\/","title":{"rendered":"How Google Shopping Impacts On Kakaku.com&#8217;s Pricing Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Google Japan's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/googlejapan_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"66\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Kakaku.com's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/kakakucom.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"50\" \/><br \/>\nGoogle launched its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/products\">price comparison service<\/a> intended to Japanese market today, that collects product description and price updates from an enormous number of e-commerce retailers and allows you to find the cheapest price at a glance.<br \/>\nGoogle&#8217;s new service launch influenced the stock price of Japan&#8217;s largest e-commerce price comparison site <a href=\"http:\/\/kakaku.com\/\">Kakaku.com[J]<\/a>, it dropped slightly down to 380,000 yen which is lower by 55,000 yen compared to yesterday&#8217;s closing price and equal to that recorded in December 2007.<br \/>\nThe following chart shows you the daily movement of Kakaku.com&#8217;s stock price during the last three months.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kakaku_stockchart.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10904\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Kakaku.com Stockchart\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kakaku_stockchart.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Source: MSN MoneyCentral)<br \/>\nJapanese stock market considers Google Shopping might be a threat for Kakaku.com.\u00a0 However, is the new service so influential as to press down Kakaku&#8217;s stock price?\u00a0\u00a0 The followings may be considered as threats for Kakaku.com.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unlike Kakaku.com, Google Shopping allows e-commerce sites to update their price listing for free.<\/li>\n<li>When a consumer makes a search on Google to buy something, Google Shopping search results will be answered prior to other sites&#8217; results, which may cause the decreased induction to Kakaku.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, Google Shopping lacks the following features (in comparison with Kakaku.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No ranking of retailers dealing with the product you&#8217;ve specified.<\/li>\n<li>No specification nor details about the product you&#8217;ve specified.<\/li>\n<li>No other user&#8217;s comment\/review on the product you&#8217;ve specified.<\/li>\n<li>No category menu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Japanese love ranking things.\u00a0\u00a0 Without it, they can&#8217;t make their minds on which product should be purchased from which e-commerce site.<br \/>\nBut Google Shopping gives you benefit if you&#8217;ve already decided what you would buy.\u00a0\u00a0 Because&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some of retailers listed on Google Shopping are not participating Kakaku.com.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s some cases that Google Shopping show you a list of lower prices than Kakaku.com<\/li>\n<li>Google Shopping collects price quotes only from e-commerce sites.\u00a0 No quote of real store&#8217;s sticker prices is included in the results, which makes you easier to pick the cheapest one only from the options that you can buy online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How Google Shopping will affect the Japanese e-commerce industry?<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"http:\/\/techse7en.com\/archives\/1396059.html\">Tech Seven[J]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google launched its price comparison service intended to Japanese market today, that collects product description and price updates from an enormous number of e-commerce retailers and allows you to find the cheapest price at a glance. Google&#8217;s new service launch influenced the stock price of Japan&#8217;s largest e-commerce price comparison site Kakaku.com[J], it dropped slightly&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/how-google-shopping-impacts-on-kakaku-coms-pricing-business\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Google Shopping Impacts On Kakaku.com&#8217;s Pricing Business?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24,29,36],"tags":[1401,1419,1907],"class_list":["post-10869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","category-service","category-trend","tag-google","tag-google-shopping","tag-kakakucom","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}