I just created a Google Custom Search Engine for searching the top retail ecommerce sites on the net. Hopefully this will be useful in finding that special gift with the holidays coming up. I added it to the navigation bar up top.
Personally, I’m having fun looking at the search results that google is providing. It’s interesting to look at the various ecommerce sites and their SEO optimization as it is clearly coming into play here. When you take out the millions of other pages google would have included in the mix, you can start to compare multiple retailers and how they’ve been optimized for organic search.
I’ll have the top ~ 500 ecommerce retail websites in the search engine by Tuesday or so. I’m currently up to 128 for testing purposes. The top 500+ ecommerce sites in the US are currently in the search engine which should give a wide array of stores to search. Over time I’ll add & subtract from the overall list to improve the searching.
I have another search engine in the works for retail industry research. It should be done in the next week or so.
If you try it out, please send me an email or leave a comment on how well it works for you. I’m still trying to tweak it.
