Yahoo releases e-commerce programming tools
Published: 04 Aug 2005 13:35 BST
Yahoo is trying to make it easier for companies to create e-commerce Web sites.
Yahoo on Tuesday unveiled APIs for Yahoo Shopping that developers can use to build applications into their Web sites to allow customers to search and compare products and prices from within Yahoo's merchant databases.
The product search API lets developers add applications onto commerce sites that search the Yahoo Shopping database by keyword, merchant, price range or product category and filter merchants according to their Yahoo User ratings.
The price comparison grid API provides access to millions of products from thousands of merchants with base price, tax and shipping information and total price, based on postal code.
Also on Tuesday, online comparison Web site Shopping.com announced it will provide access to MSN to millions of products from its database of more than 10,000 merchants. Shopping.com is being acquired by online auction giant eBay.
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