Bing Deals aggregates daily shopping discounts from Groupon, LivingSocial, etc.
A one-stop shop full of all the daily deals on offer at any given moment? Yes please. Bing me the goodies as Bing Deals with the hard work.
Daily deals seemed to crop up all of a sudden from out of nowhere to become big business. The trend for offering consumers a one-off deal is now so popular that the number of sites and vendors offering them has spiraled out of control. On the one had this is great news for bargain-hunters, who now have a huge range of deals to choose from on a daily basis. But on the other it can be a nightmare trying to filter the deals sufficiently to sort the chaff from the wheat.
Microsoft could have, like so many other big companies have or are doing, tried to build their own daily deals service. But realizing that would only add to the confusion, the company has decided to play aggregator instead. Bing Deals is now live, as announced in a Bing Community blog post. Lisa Gurry from The Bing Team states:
People are telling us if they can end the unwelcome egg hunt, they would welcome the savings. When asked, 87% of people said they would increase their use of daily deals if they could find only deals that interest them all in one place … With the launch of Bing Deals, we’re doing just that.
The range of discount sites aggregated on Bing Deals includes The Dealmap (recently acquired by Google), Groupon, Living Social, Tippr, Zozi, and Gilt City, with retailers such as Target, Nordstrom, Macy’s, Staples, Fossil, and Zappos also included in the mix. You can now find the best deals all in one place without the need to browse multiple different sites or the need to plow through hundreds of emails.
Bing Deals lets you search through more than 200,000 deals across the U.S. by retailer, location, keywords, or category, with all the necessary information delivered back to you via visual search results. What’s not to love? Apart from the fact this will only make you more likely to spend money you don’t have on products or experiences you don’t need.
Related Posts:
