MSN Shopping Insider

Today we launch the brand new Windows Live Shopping site! What is it? It is the beta launch of Microsoft’s Web 2.0 shopping experience, featuring one of the world’s largest product catalogs, user-created content and an easier-to-use interface built on...

The MSN Shopping team has updated our price comparison page to make it more useful for both consumers and sellers. This page allows MSN Shopping customers to compare all the offers for standard products like consumer electronics, books and movies. Instead...

One of the exciting areas the MSN Shopping Creative Team worked on this month is a friendly print feature. There is no separate button or control needed as it is integrated site-wide via a style sheet, and works transparently with the browser. All the...

MSN Shopping recently integrated with eBay to bring a considerably broader selection of products onto our site, ranging from refurbished auction items to brand new, fixed-price items. This addition enables our users to enjoy a significantly expanded selection...

In celebration of the festive holiday season, MSN Shopping sponsored today's "Shopping in your Undies" event with Cedric the Entertainer in New York City's Times Square. Today's event and all surrounding activities highlighted the ease and convenience...

Most of us in the online space have known for a while that consumers like to shop while at work. We’ve also known that Black Friday was not as big online as it is offline. Now, the mainstream press have got a hold of the data and coined a new term, Cyber...

Today we released a new feature on MSN Search called MSN Shopping Instant Answers. MSN Search Instant Answers are designed to provide better access to highly-relevant information with immediate utility. At the end of the day, we hope we can connect people...

In an effort to show our customers how committed MSN Shopping is to providing an easy and fun online shopping experience, MSN Shopping has teamed up with Shirley Jones, also known as “Mrs. Partridge" from TV’s classic The Partridge Family , to create...

As you may know, we announced our new MSN Shopping site in August , and have continued to improve our consumer experience over the past few months. One of the more recent things we have done is to prepare a fantastic holiday offering and shopping experience...

Now that MSN Shopping’s selection is filled with more than 30 million offers, we are especially focused on developing new and unique ways to merchandise our selection and best deals for customers. Offering great prices and merchandising them is critical...

Just released is our new “community price patrol” feature which allows customers to report price errors on the MSN Shopping site. This feature is now available on the 'prices pages' in the form of a link called “Report error in price", which is located...

MSN Shopping is very pleased and excited to announce the launch of the new Shopping site on ninemsn in Australia! The new site is built upon the same application platform recently released in the United States, and demonstrates the MSN Shopping team’s...

On behalf of MSN Shopping , I spent this past weekend in New York City attending the DigitalLife consumer technology tradeshow. DigitalLife is a three-day consumer event, produced by Ziff Davis Media , dedicated to educating consumers on what the digital...

MSN Shopping has just released our first version of the shopping gadget on Start.com . To get to it, expand the Start sidebar and click on Shopping under Gadgets (circled in the image below). It leverages our current RSS implementation on the MSN Shopping...

Many people are aware that MSN Shopping gives users the opportunity to refine their results in hard-good categories like televisions , digital cameras , computers , etc. Attribute extraction was one of the biggest investment areas we made for our new...

Hey, if you haven’t already checked out the new and improved MSN Shopping take a look at http://shopping.msn.com . One of the features I’m most excited about, and not just because I worked on it, is RSS which stands for Really Simple Syndication. Basically...

Tune in tomorrow for some insight into RSS on MSN Shopping from Ian McAllister, Program Manager for RSS on our team. I have high hopes for RSS with the e-commerce world, as I believe it can not only be a great tool for the consumer, helping them stay...

Today, we are very pleased to share that MSN Shopping visitors will now have access to millions of products and thousands of merchants through Shopping.com. This is another great example, as is our PriceGrabber relationship, of how we are signficantly...

Today is a very big day for MSN Shopping. As many of you know, our team has been hard at work building a great comparison shopping experience for consumers. I am extremely pleased to announce that the beta has now gone live. This release (which was in...

I'm very psyched to officially announce that our new beta site is up & running. This is MSN Shopping's most signficant upgrade in years, and includes a variety of new features that help consumers quickly and easily find what they are looking for amidst...

We will be officially launching our new beta site on Monday, but you can check it out this weekend at http://beta.shopping.msn.com/ We'll provide much more information next week, so stay tuned. In the meantime, please let us know what you think...

As we’ve previously mentioned, we are making many changes to MSN Shopping, many of which will be available publicly when we relaunch our beta site. Deborah Rothberg at Microsoft Watch wrote a great article about why we needed to make some changes, as...

We need to apologize to you. We are new to blogging and are bound to make a few mistakes. One of our first mistakes with this blog was that anonomous comments were moderated. Cheryle Pingel of Range was kind enough to point out how comments were not getting...

As some of you have already noticed , we have inactivated our beta . While I will not tell you when our new site will launch, I can tell you that we have gotten a lot of valuable information from our beta. That info came in the form of feedback that you...

Hi, I'm Chris Jolley and I work on Scott's team as the Group Programming Manager. Today our alliance with PriceGrabber was announced. Sean , from Organized Shopping feels the details are a bit sketchy, so I thought I'd offer a little clarification......