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  • Bing Taps ResellerRatings For Merchant Reviews

    Leena Rao

    Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

    Friday, June 25th, 2010


    Microsoft’s Bing has tapped ResellerRatings to provide online merchant reviews for the shopping search results. ResellerRatings is a ratings site that includes more than 430,000 consumer reviews of online sellers and merchants.

    ResellerRatings both includes reviews of online retailers, such as Newegg, TigerDirect, DiamondShark, Buy.com, and B&H, and also allows these retailers respond to customers that submit reviews. Merchants can solicit customer reviews by using a pop-up check-out survey, can contact reviewers directly to resolve issues, view related product invoices, flag reviews from non-customers and post public replies to help influence customer service and satisfaction. ResellerRatings claims that its reviews have influenced more than 10 million purchasing decisions within the last year.

    Of course, this isn’t an exclusive partnership. ResellerRatings reviews are syndicated on Google Product Search, TheFind.com and ShopWiki.com, and other shopping search portals. ResellerRatings was developed and launched by Scott Wainner in 1998. He later sold it to EarthWeb, then re-purchased it from Internet.com.

    ResellerRatings is a place to compare prices, store ratings and reviews of online stores, deals and bargains. Reseller Ratings was developed and launched by Scott Wainner while he was in high school. He later sold ResellerRatings to EarthWeb, then re-purchased it from Internet.com at a fraction of its cost since the site wasn’t successful under the new leadership. In August 2012, ResellerRatings was acquired by Answers.com.

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