Group Project Presentation

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Here is our group presentation.  I hope you find everything you want to know when comparing Amazon.com and Google Shopping.

Group Project Presentation.pptx

Answering questions and finalization

Hello everyone,

This post will be my final blog posting and in it I will address a couple of questions you may have and I will wrap it all up.

So, first things first.  You may find yourself asking, "How does each company position shopping in respect to the other services it provides?" This question is mainly pointed towards Google Shopping because Google provides a lot more services than Amazon.  Google treats its shopping option just like its search engine except it focuses on shopping sites.  By this I mean that it searches all over for an opportunity to buy the product you search for.  Amazon.com is a bit different.  Amazon.com's main focus is shopping, it offers other services like selling for example, but it mainly deals with shopping.  So a better question would be, "How does Amazon position selling in respect to shopping?"  Well, Amazon's selling option is a bit different than its shopping option.  When you sell something on Amazon, you fill out the information about the product and Amazon makes your product available right alongside their product and that of other sellers.  However, the bottom line is Amazon is really all about selling even if it lets other people and business sell on their site.

Another question you may have asked is, “What is the main shopping focus for each site?”  Well, both sites have very different shopping focuses.  Amazon, sells just about anything you can think of and Google Shopping doesn't sell anything.  Google Shopping just mines the internet for an e-commerce site with the product that you searched for.  It is as simple as that.

Finally, you might ask, "Which would you recommend and why?"  Well, based on all of my research and experience with both sites, I would have to recommend Amazon.com as the better e-commerce site.  I say this because Google Shopping doesn't even really sell anything, it just shows you sites that sell things.  Google will even take you to Amazon.com if they have what you searched for at the lowest price.  So in the end, Google Shopping is really just a waste of time, you could just go straight to Amazon.  Amazon is what might be referred to as “one stop shopping”.  You don’t have to go to multiple sites looking for what you want.  You can become a “Prime” member and get free shipping and you can even sign up for some products and get better savings by subscribing to auto delivery for future shipments.  On the other hand, if time and convenience aren’t a high priority, then Google Shopping might be for you.  I just find that convenience and saving time is very valuable to me.

I hope you enjoyed this peek into the differences between Amazon.com and Google Shopping.  Personally, I buy most everything I need from Amazon and I am very satisfied.  To check out the sites yourself click on the links below.

Amazon.com
Google Shopping

Experiment and Results of Experiment

Hello everyone,

We completed our experiment where we compared Amazon and Google Shopping.  We first developed a pretty random list of 20 items ranging from household goods to a cello set.  We took that shopping list and searched on both Amazon and Google Shopping. 

All of our items were found on Amazon, but four of our items were not found through Google Shopping.  We compared the base price, tax, shipping cost and delivery time for each item.  We found that Google Shopping returned a total cost that was an average of 6% less than Amazon.  However, we also found that we were unable to determine the time to delivery on  50% of the items on our list.  Amazon guaranteed delivery in 3 days (on average).  Of the items where delivery could be determined through Google Shopping, the average delivery time was 9 days.

Finally, we found that Google Shopping (being the web mining site it is), sent us to many different web sites to purchase our items.  If we were to purchase every item on our list, we would be buying from a total of 12 different web sites.  With Amazon we only had to order through Amazon. 

In reality, comparing Amazon and Google Shopping is not a completely equitable process.  The two sites have somewhat different purposes and business models. 

More to come next week!

Overview & Explanation of Technology

Our group project will focus on comparing and contrasting Amazon and Google Sopping. We aim to prove that Amazon is the better e-commerce site.

 Amazon.com is an e-commerce website that allows customers to buy products online. Products can come directly from amazon, from another customer, or from a third party seller.

Based on my experience with Google Shopping, it is more of an e-commerce mining site than an e-commerce site. By this I mean that it scans the internet for the products you search for and shows you e-commerce sites with that product. From this I concluded that Google Shopping is kind of a waste of time when you could just start at Amazon.

Stay tuned for the next post which will discuss the results of our shopping list comparison.