Google Search Engine, Debuts AJAX Language API Tools

News: Google Search Engine, Debuts AJAX Language API Tools
 
Mountain View, California – (Website Hosting Directory) – April 3, 2008 – According to Brandon Badger, Product Manager at search engine, Google, the main goal of its AJAX APIs team is to provide developers with the tools needed to create the next generation of great web applications.

The API helps developers automatically translate content in their applications. Users on these sites will have an easier time communicating across lingual boundaries. The Language API provides both translation and language detection. It is also possible to experiment with the language detection capabilities.

In addition, Google recently added a shopping tab to its homepage, which directly links to its on-line product catalog called Product Search.
FastCommerce, a small business enterprise e-commerce provider, recently announced the successful launch of its automated submission service to Google Shopping. Submission to Google is also available with the free version of FastCommerce. The results have been remarkable. By simply signing up for the free version of FastCommerce and creating a product catalog, the on-line retailer starts selling right away.

For small business on-line retailers, an e-commerce solution that quickly produces results is considered essential to survival. That is why FastCommerce recently launched a product submission service to Google Shopping; also known as Google Product Search. Google has built the equivalent of an on-line product catalog that is tied in with its popular search site. On-line retailers can post products to the Google catalog, and even sell directly through the service via Google Check-out. Google’s popularity coupled with the recent addition of its new Shopping tab on the Google homepage, has the effect of driving targeted searches for product directly through Google Shopping.

With Google Shopping, shoppers can view multiple listings for a given product and either purchase directly on Google, or proceed directly to the merchant own web store. Submitting to Google Product Search costs the on-line retailer nothing; unlike EBay, there are no fees for posting an unlimited number of products. This is a tremendous competitive edge for small business e-commerce start-ups that cannot afford the sometimes prohibitive cost of running a business exclusively on EBay. Rather than having the merchant manually submit products one by one, FastCommerce automatically submits the whole of a merchant’s on-line product catalog to Google Product Search. In providing this level of service, FastCommerce is focused on the success of its clients in an increasingly sophisticated and competitive on-line retail universe.

Google Product Search consistently generates a high volume of sales and sales inquiries for FastCommerce merchants. Having the whole of a merchant’s on-line product catalog published on Google Shopping is nothing less than a major marketing tool for small business on-line retailers. It is a service that Google offers for free. This is even more remarkable given that the FastCommerce small business e-commerce platform is entirely free for the first fifty products. A small business or an individual entrepreneur can sign up for the free version of FastCommerce, build a professional and attractive web store, and post up to fifty products for free. The free version gives them access to almost the whole of the FastCommerce platform: simply signing up automatically generates a professional website and back office tools to manage their business. Merchants then see an immediate effect in having their products automatically listed to Google’s Product Search.

FastCommerce is a web-based e-commerce application that lets small business start, grow and then manage their business on-line, all from one single system. Small business entrepreneurs gain access to a professional, fully operable e-commerce website, as well as a full suite of back-office management tools needed to run a business on-line. It is completely free to the first fifty products. The addition of Google Shopping to the free version is a very powerful tool: a small business can make the move to e-commerce with immediate results. The clients are then free to sign up for additional services when they are ready.

FastCommerce.com also announced the launch of a Professional services division, designed for established businesses looking to make the leap into e-commerce while avoiding the hefty expense of project implementation and costly technology. Small businesses with large product catalogs face tremendous hurdles when looking to go into on-line sales. Such a move has traditionally involves licensing e-commerce technologies, and then expending additional funds for implementation. The FastCommerce Professional Services team brings years of experience and its Web 2.0 technology platform to get companies up and running in days instead of months. There is no contract. For a small set up fee, small businesses get a fully operable e-commerce web-site with their products pre-installed. FastCommerce drives down the cost to a fraction of most e-commerce technology platforms. There are additional services for submitting to over 100 search engines, directories, as well as keyword consultation and continuous updates.

FastCommerce.com is a Web 2.0 technology platform that changes the way entrepreneurs can succeed in on-line sales. It has been designed to automate all the initial hurdles of beginning a web business and managing it, all from one single system. Far from being a simple shopping cart technology, FastCommerce Small Business e-Commerce technology is enterprise in scope with the goal of letting small companies and entrepreneurs run all aspects of their business from a fully integrated single system. It is affordable small business enterprise e-commerce at a small business price.

With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry’s most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google’s technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor’s Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, California, Google’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.

For more information about FastCommerce.com, please visit: http://system.fastcommerce.com.

FastCommerce.com Feature List

E-Commerce Website Feature

• Professional Retail Web-store and Checkout
• Homepage Branding and Personalization
• Easy homepage management (no technical expertise required)
• Ability to upload images, banners, logos into multiple parts of the website
• Homepage option for creating text, as well as links to marketing pages 
• Create-A-Page for Custom Marketing
• Attractive templates for free
• Automatic shipping calculator for UPS, FedEx and USPS
• Automatic Tax calculator
• Free secure and encrypted checkout process
• One Page Checkout
• Guest Checkout
• Google Checkout option
• PayPal option
• Alternative or traditional payment options (check, purchase order, etc)
• Accept credit cards through Authorize.net
• Featured products on homepage
• Related products for accessories and cross sell
• Automatic order email confirmation (with customizable messaging)
• Automatic order email notification to merchant
• Automatic shipping confirmation email
• Flat rate shipping option for all carriers
• Custom shipping options (merchant defines)
• Handling fee option
• Message box in shopping cart
• Customer registration and account edit capability
• Customer order history per account
• Customer re-orders from order history
• Built in search and advanced search
• Search by brand and advanced search
• Easy navigation through parent category tabs
• Shop by brand

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT MODULE

• Alternative keywords per product for enhanced search results
• Free shipping option per product
• Product management by category search capability
• Quick product search field, or by alphabet
• Multiple images
• Product Personalization Option
• Assign product to multiple categories
• Multiple pricing options including you save percentage option
• Real time for price and product changes for quick response
• Hide product from online store and search option
• Quick link for 10 top selling items
• Quick link for 10 most popular items
• Quick link management for products without images or category assignment
• Assign product to brand
• Product variables (size, color, price, etc.)
• In-Stock quantity
• Quickly create related items
• Customizable product description tabs
• Assign item to brand
• Tabs for product description, specification, warranty, etc
• Disable shopping cart option per product with customizable messaging (Call for Price)
• Search engine visible product pages with search engine optimization features
• Customizable shipping message
• Customizable availability message (Fifty in stock)
• Display shipping weight option
• Customizable product description area for marketing, pictures, links and more
• Image file manager for permanent storage and fast upload
• Ability to control product order within a given category

Order and Customer Management

• Approve, Process and Ship new orders
• Email notification for new orders
• Fast search for customer and account information
• Real time order management module for quick order processing
• Edit order for order modification and partially shipped orders
• Add/ adjust shipping and handling charges during the order processing
• View recent orders
• View recent customers
• Create customer account
• Create notes for customer accounts
• Multiple shipping addresses per account
• View customer purchase history
• Back Orders
• Report for total sales for adjustable time frame
• On Hold Orders report
• Report for shipping expenditures
• Report for product ranking by popularity
• Flat rate shipping option
• Customizable shipping options
• Payment by credit card, PayPal, Google Checkout
• Payment option for traditional methods (check, purchase order, etc)
• Customizable payment options