Connected PR Main Site » Twenga http://connectedpr.com Just another WordPress site Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:12:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Twenga Gets New Look and Feel with Website Makeover http://connectedpr.com/blog/2009/08/19/twenga-gets-new-look-and-feel-with-website-makeover/ http://connectedpr.com/blog/2009/08/19/twenga-gets-new-look-and-feel-with-website-makeover/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:50:54 +0000 david http://connectedcollective.co.uk/?p=76 Twenga , a comprehensive price comparison guide, has launched an updated version of their Website (www.twenga.co.uk). The Paris-based company has given it’s site a bit of a facelift, featuring a significant cosmetic overhaul as well as some functional changes – see below.

New Features:

  • Travel Section where users can search for deals on hotels, flights and car hire. Bargain hunters can take advantage of the last minute offers and search for deals by city and/or country
  • Shopping Guides to help plan for events such as Halloween, Christmas, Easter, etc
  • Shop by theme, such as keeping fit, gift ideas, wedding planning, birthday parties, etc
  • Easier browsing by category (such as health and beauty, homeware, music, books, pets) and brand (such as Canon, Apple, Nike, John Lewis and L’Oreal)
  • Improved customer feedback option, enabling the user to ask questions, make suggestions and report any problems

You will also notice a total re-fresh of the whole site in terms of appearance. The improved layout has been designed and tested to make usability easier and more intuitive.

Check it out at http://www.twenga.co.uk!

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“Shopping and searching for items at Twenga couldn’t be easier.” – TBWG

“There is nothing that can not be found at Twenga, be it Fashion, Jewellery, Appliances, Books, Sport, Games or anything else you can think of. Why would you shop anywhere else?” – TBWG

Check out the full review here.

]]> http://connectedpr.com/blog/2009/07/23/twenga-receives-thumbs-up-from-the-good-web-guide/feed/ 0 Trevor Ginn interview with Bastien Duclaux, Twenga CEO http://connectedpr.com/blog/2009/07/13/trevor-ginn-interview-with-bastien-duclaux-twenga-ceo/ http://connectedpr.com/blog/2009/07/13/trevor-ginn-interview-with-bastien-duclaux-twenga-ceo/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:10:29 +0000 david http://connectedcollective.co.uk/?p=80 eBay/eCommerce blogger and industry expert Trevor Ginn recently interviewed Bastien Duclaux, the CEO of Twenga, to discuss the French-based global company, the evolution of shopping search engines, price comparison sites and the importance of performance-based marketing.

Interview with Bastien Duclaux, CEO, Twenga
by Trevor Ginn
Posted Sat, July 11, 2009

I am a big fan of Twenga. I think it is great from a retailers POV as it is free, and great for customers as it has a huge range of products. i managed to get a interview with the founder, Bastien Duclaux, where he gives some insights into Twenga and the furture of shopping comparison

Q. Could you give us some background on Twenga?

A. Twenga is a shopping search engine, price comparison site and shopping guide. The company was founded in 2006 by Bastien Duclaux and Cédric Anès, to fill an unsatisfied need for an open shopping search engine.

Before us, first-generation shopping search engines were “walled-garden” price comparison sites: Firstly, they were focused on price comparison, rather than on product search to match consumer needs. Secondly, they were only displaying the offers of those retailers with whom they have a commercial relationship (hence the term ‘walled garden’).

There was a need to break these limitations. We wanted to offer online shoppers the democracy of free and open choices, to give them access to all retailers, not just a few. This is why we developed a technology that gathers shopping data from the entire web and displays it in one searchable interface. One main element of our technology is a dedicated and proprietary “crawl engine” which automatically scans and analyzes the retail offerings of 200 million multilingual Web pages every day.

Check out the full interview here .

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