Become.com Opens for Public BETA Testing
Thread Title:
www.become.com/beta/
www.become.com/beta/
Thread Url:
http://www.become.com/beta/
http://www.become.com/beta/
Thread Description:
Become.com the new Shopping Search Engine from Michael Yang, is now Open for Public BETA Testing
Previously, the much whispered about new engine was only open to friends and family.
Michael Yang, who founded MySimon back in 1998 with partner, and now Become's CTO Yeogirl Yun, who founded WiseNut are busy at a pre-launch party right now and from the very brief look i've just had after registering for a beta account, they have much to celebrate.
Congratulations guys, the honeymoon lasts about 24hrs, just so ya know... hehe...
Added: Looks like Jason Dowdell will be blogging a bit about the party - read the first comment and check out mrs Jason giving "the warning" heh...
:-)
Become.com the new Shopping Search Engine from Michael Yang, is now Open for Public BETA TestingPreviously, the much whispered about new engine was only open to friends and family.
Michael Yang, who founded MySimon back in 1998 with partner, and now Become's CTO Yeogirl Yun, who founded WiseNut are busy at a pre-launch party right now and from the very brief look i've just had after registering for a beta account, they have much to celebrate.
Congratulations guys, the honeymoon lasts about 24hrs, just so ya know... hehe...
Added: Looks like Jason Dowdell will be blogging a bit about the party - read the first comment and check out mrs Jason giving "the warning" heh...
:-)
- Y! MyWeb
I wonder if these smaller sho
I wonder if these smaller shopping and business review type sites can get a foothold and a following and steal a bit of the thunder from the Local Search biggies?
If I were to find a shopping site specific to my city and it offerred everything I need I'd likely remain loyal while the Googles et al flounder around in Beta forever.
Trade Doubler
Looks like they got tradedoubler sponsored links but they go through a google url? what's all that about then?
Bit slow too - (did i say 24hrs? i meant 5mins heh)
TradeDoubler?
Michael did mention in the Q&A that they planned to use AdSense... sure it is not just an AdWords affiliate going direct to TradeDoubler?
More on Become
Since breaking the story the blogs have picked up on it and there are some bits worthy of mention:
The rest are just pointing to the beta page...