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Axel Springer will cease operations of the comparison site Ladenzeile and its international equivalents named Shopalike by the end of this month. Reduced visibility on Google likely played a significant role in this decision.

PureClarity, an ecommerce personalization software solution from the United Kingdom, has been announced the SaaS solution of the year at the European IT & Software Excellence Awards. PureClarity won the award for its personalized search product, which presents website visitors the most relevant products as they use the search function.

Product ratings on Google Shopping are now also available for shoppers in the United Kingdom, France and Germany. Last year, the product ratings on Product Listing Ads were introduced in the United States, but now select Google users in Europe are also able to make better purchase decisions when shopping online.

Google is increasingly making websites that offer a true mobile user experience more important, by ranking them higher and highlighting them with a "for mobile" tag in the search results. So your website or online store better be optimized for mobile devices, because you will notice the difference soon.

When you want your online store to succeed in Russia, you surely want it to be shown in search engine results pages. You ought to think Google is your search engine of choice, but when it's about the Russian market, think again. It's Yandex that's the dominant search engine in this country. Check the infographic to see what Yandex can offer you!

The number of internet searches for UK retailers has increased, mostly thanks to Russian and Dutch consumers. According to research from the British Retail Consortium, in co-operation with Google, the number of overseas consumers searching for UK retailers grew with 23 percent in 2013's third quarter. Total retail search volumes grew 12 percent in the third quarter of 2013, compared with the same period one year earlier.