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Bing Shopping (formerly MSN Shopping, Live Search Products and Windows Live Product Search) was a products search service and part of Microsoft's Bing search engine, discontinued around October 1, 2013.〔(Find it Faster with Bing Product Search ).〕 It was customised for finding products available for sale on the web. The results provided information such as product pictures, pricing, and description. These products could be indexed by crawling the web and extracting rich meta-data from web pages. == Cashback program == The Bing Cashback program was a rebate program launched on May 22, 2008 (''Live Search Cashback'') that allowed users to search for products from multiple vendors and find their prices and offering money back for purchases made through the site. The cashback service started in June 2006 as part of Jellyfish.com.〔(''Washington Post'', "BuzzWorthy: At This Auction Site, Prices (on Chickens, iPods, Etc.) Are Going, Going Down" ), retrieved 13 March 2008〕 On October 2, 2007, Microsoft announced the purchase of Jellyfish.com with an estimated price of $50 million.〔(Official blog of Live Search team, "Microsoft acquires Jellyfish.com" ), retrieved 13 March 2008〕〔(''ZDNet'', "Microsoft buys Jellyfish comparison-shopping search engine" ), retrieved March 18, 2008〕 Microsoft intended to use the Jellyfish engine as part of their Live Search services in attempt to catch up to Google in the search market.〔(''BBC News'', "Microsoft adds cashback search" ), retrieved 22 May 2008〕 The cashback portion of Jellyfish.com was integrated with Bing (then Live Search) and officially announced on May 22, 2008. From December 1, 2008, Bing Cashback began offering users to receive cashbacks instantly, instead of having to wait for 60 days. This feature only worked in conjunction with eBay.〔(Live Search team blog: You asked for it: instant cashback! )〕 On April 14, 2009, Microsoft officially merged Cashback with the then Live Search Products.〔(Live Search team blog: Saving Money Just Got a Little Bit Easier )〕 On June 3, 2009, as part of the rebrand from Live Search to Bing, the service was renamed "Bing Cashback". On June 4, 2010, Microsoft announced that Bing Cashback would be retired on July 30, 2010 due to lack of interest.〔(Bing Search Blog: A Farewell to Bing cashback ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bing Shopping」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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