• eWeek, Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:01 PM

Google has upgraded its Commerce Search product with several new features that let users refine their search results on retail sites. First debuted last November, Google Commerce Search is the company's enterprise search offering to let online retailers power their online stores with Google's search technology, according to eWeek.

Google hosts all of the data on its own servers in the cloud to alleviate customers' concerns about handling holiday traffic spikes. As eWeek explains, "This is a departure from traditional enterprise search providers such as Endeca, Vivisimo, and Microsoft's Fast unit, which offer search software retailers install on their own servers." Commerce Search 2.0 includes a full merchandising dashboard, including more control over promotions, ranking rules and filtering. Google has also added a new price point for Commerce Search. The original entry level price was $50,000 per year for an indexing of 100,000 items and up to 10 million queries. Cutting that virtually in half "to appeal to smaller businesses, or businesses with smaller needs," businesses may now license Commerce Search for $25,000 per year, eWeek reports.

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