Here, we ask him about the company’s latest efforts around acquisition, conversion and retention, including a current project to digitise its print catalogues.

He also gives us some interesting thoughts on cashback affiliates and shopping comparison sites, as well as the good stuff IT manufacturers are doing to support retailers like Dabs.

So why do customers abandon their shopping carts and what can be done about it?

Thus, this week's Web Week in Review is dedicated to the software company everybody loves to hate.

Let's build a quick to-do list to spruce up your site for Universal Search.

The landscape of Search is changing and I recently noticed three vertical search applications, which may end up threatening Google’s position.

Webcredible's Flights Online study looked at the flight search and booking process on 20 travel agent and airline websites.

The highest scoring website was Opodo with 67%, while Monarch came off worst on 38%. On average, travel agent websites were more usable than the airlines' sites.

The site was launched in France in 2006 and has since expanded around Europe, with sites in Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland and other countries reaching a combined audience of over 9m users a month.

We caught up with Twenga CEO Bastion Duclaux to talk about its growth, as well as what makes his site different from the rest...

We talked to CEO Richard Anson about the deal:

Measuring the validity of all online reviews is difficult and I can’t work out who might want to police this...

The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, though Jellyfish raised $5m in funding last year from Kegonsa Capital Partners and Clyde Street Investments.

Both the Observer and Mail on Sunday report that the supermarket giant is set to announce its long-anticipated move into the online clothing sector – one it has been planning since last year.

Tescocompare.com is a joint venture between Tesco and the Royal Bank of Scotland. The site is due to launch on Friday, offering financial services from RBS companies like Churchill, but also from other providers.

The company has launched a beta service that allows consumers to search the web for hotel rooms and guesstimate whether the prices being offered are a good deal.

The consumers are reportedly concerned that results on the sites are displayed according to which company pays the most for their listings.

That was over 2 months ago now… But I thought I’d at least capture a few snippets of interest that I still remember.

French start-up Zlio, which allows you to create and stock your own online store, has announced a CPC partnership with price comparison site Shopping.com.

The deal will allow Zlio's shopkeepers to earn commission every time someone clicks through to a product on the comparison site, while Shopping.com will benefit from the leads generated by Zlio users.

The move, according to the Wall Street Journal, will see Hearst using the site to tap into social shopping and attempting to engage its magazine readers in new ways.