{"id":17281,"date":"2014-03-11T20:46:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=17281"},"modified":"2014-03-17T19:50:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T14:20:01","slug":"shopalike-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/shopalike-india\/","title":{"rendered":"ShopAlike.in: A product comparison website from Visual Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Visual Meta has always given prominence to the idea of visual product comparison and search websites since their inception in 2009. Their first website was launched in Germany. Now, their sites are present over 15 countries and recently they launched their Indian version, their first entry outside European market. The latest addition to Indian e-commerce market is named \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopalike.in\" target=\"_blank\">ShopAlike.in<\/a>\u2019. The website serves as a podium for product comparison for lifestyle products, fashion, home furnishing and more.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The website allows you to view the the various products with pictures and precise descriptions from a number of online shops. Majority products of foremost online shops are listed in the website which eliminates the tedious task of browsing through a heap of online shops. The users are allotted with filter feature for colour, style, size etc, which will help them in making their search for desired items easier. Price comparison option for items of several shops is also featured in the website.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The websites are managed by Visual Meta GmbH, a startup company from Berlin. Their founder Robert Maier, an alumnus of IIM-A, always wanted to open their market in India. The website has been optimized for tablets and mobile phones, apps have been developed by major mobile platforms. With more and more online shopping sites getting into the Indian market, the Indian e-commerce scenario is expected to have an exciting time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual Meta has always given prominence to the idea of visual product comparison and search websites since their inception in 2009. Their first website was launched in Germany. Now, their sites are present over 15 countries and recently they launched their Indian version, their first entry outside European market. The latest addition to Indian e-commerce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":17282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,5],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-17281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-startups-technology","category-technology","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}