Amazon killed feed to ShopSavvy and Delicious.
July 7, 2009
MG Siegler broke the news that Amazon is ‘Killing Mobile Apps that Use its Data‘. ShopSavvy is not immune. Here is our post on the matter:
We love Amazon. What they have done for online commerce has been truly remarkable. In many ways, they set the stage for apps like ShopSavvy.
Unfortunately, we have had difficulty incorporating Amazon products among the more than 20,000 retailers and 2 million products that are part of ShopSavvy. It’s not a technical issue; with access to Amazon’s product API, we could include all Amazon products in the ShopSavvy database immediately. But for reasons that are unclear to us, Amazon has not yet given us this access.
For a while, we have been able to work around this problem, because a number of our partners had access to Amazon’s API, and we were able to display Amazon results through them. But now Amazon has essentially cut this option off, meaning that only a small percentage of Amazon products now display in ShopSavvy results.
We’re not sure why Amazon is reluctant to be part of ShopSavvy, but we know that our 1+ million users would benefit from having access to Amazon’s prices as they comparison shop for books, movies, music, games, electronics and many other types of products.
We intend to plead our case directly to Amazon again soon — and we will need your help. Let Amazon know that you want their product results to be part of ShopSavvy. Tell Amazon they should join Best Buy, Wal-Mart and the 20,000 other retailers who allow their products to be accessed by ShopSavvy users.
