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Twenga.com is an online open shopping search engine. In 2006, Bastien Duclaux and Cédric Anès created Twenga, meaning "straight to the goal" in Swahili according to the company's website,〔http://www.twenga.com/about.php〕 as a unique website which would bring together "all online products and stores in one place." Twenga's 14 websites in ten different languages display nearly 300 million products for 200,000 online shops. The company states it is the "open shopping platform with the largest selection online." ==Business model== Twenga co-founders Bastien Duclaux and Cédric Anès met in 2000 at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. Frustrated by the difficulty in finding good deals online, Duclaux was inspired to create Twenga. Explaining the mechanics of Twenga, Duclaux said, "We created a shopping search engine that provides access to offers of all the merchants on the Web, unlike the price comparison of first generation, which displayed only those of their trading partners. To do this, we have developed technologies for automatic indexing." The company's "crawl" technology enables Twenga to scan tens of millions of pages of the Internet every day, automatically categorizing hundreds of millions of products in ten languages including Russian, Japanese and Chinese. This proprietary technology allowed Twenga to raise nearly €7 million from venture capital firms 3i, Sofinnova and others. By 2010, Twenga employed 120 people, including 50 research engineers. From its headquarters in Paris, Twenga runs 14 websites for markets in the United States, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Brazil, Russia, Australia, China and Japan. The sites display 300 million products from more than 200,000 online shops. The websites do not sell directly; instead they redirect users to online shops where they purchase products. Twenga itself generates revenue primarily by "advertising and business partnerships which give interested companies and retailers greater visibility than that provided by organic listing." In 2011 Twenga joined other e-commerce companies and filed an antitrust complaint to the European Commission claiming that Google abuses its dominant position by promoting their own products such as Google Shopping while penalizing competitors in the search results. 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「Twenga.com is an online open shopping search engine. In 2006, Bastien Duclaux and Cédric Anès created Twenga, meaning "straight to the goal" in Swahili according to the company's website,http://www.twenga.com/about.php as a unique website which would bring together "all online products and stores in one place." Twenga's 14 websites in ten different languages display nearly 300 million products for 200,000 online shops. The company states it is the "open shopping platform with the largest selection online."==Business model==Twenga co-founders Bastien Duclaux and Cédric Anès met in 2000 at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. Frustrated by the difficulty in finding good deals online, Duclaux was inspired to create Twenga. Explaining the mechanics of Twenga, Duclaux said, "We created a shopping search engine that provides access to offers of all the merchants on the Web, unlike the price comparison of first generation, which displayed only those of their trading partners. To do this, we have developed technologies for automatic indexing." The company's "crawl" technology enables Twenga to scan tens of millions of pages of the Internet every day, automatically categorizing hundreds of millions of products in ten languages including Russian, Japanese and Chinese. This proprietary technology allowed Twenga to raise nearly €7 million from venture capital firms 3i, Sofinnova and others. By 2010, Twenga employed 120 people, including 50 research engineers.From its headquarters in Paris, Twenga runs 14 websites for markets in the United States, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Brazil, Russia, Australia, China and Japan. The sites display 300 million products from more than 200,000 online shops. The websites do not sell directly; instead they redirect users to online shops where they purchase products. Twenga itself generates revenue primarily by "advertising and business partnerships which give interested companies and retailers greater visibility than that provided by organic listing."In 2011 Twenga joined other e-commerce companies and filed an antitrust complaint to the European Commission claiming that Google abuses its dominant position by promoting their own products such as Google Shopping while penalizing competitors in the search results.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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