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Online-to-Offline Consumer Product Search Company Goodzer Launches Web and Mobile-based Service for the Holiday Shopping Season
Real-Time Product Searches of 15,000 NYC-Area Brick and Mortar Retailers - Easily Scalable to 1 Million Retail Stores Nationwide
NEW YORK, Nov. 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Goodzer, a unique online-to-offline search service, announced today the availability of its web and mobile tool to consumers searching for products in the Greater New York City area. The service comes before the start of "Black Friday," the starting point of the holiday shopping season.
Goodzer's initial launch covers more than 15,000 brick-and-mortar stores, big and small, in the five boroughs of New York City, including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. Users can instantly search these stores to locate any consumer product imaginable, from iPads to antique jewelry. Search results display product pricing, real-time in-stock status, and distance to the retailer through full integration with Google's Maps and Street View.
The idea for Goodzer's product was developed by Co-Founder and CEO Dmitry Pakhomkin earlier this year. Spurred on by his wife's frustration in spending too much time looking for consumer items, Mr. Pakhomkin tasked himself with creating a specialized online search for brick and mortar retailers. Dmitry began working with Co-Founder Artem Zarutskiy after reading a blog detailing Mr. Zarutskiy's work on a similar localized search program for the Moscow area. Since 2008, Mr. Zarutskiy had been perfecting the brick and mortar search technology ultimately used to power Goodzer. After connecting, the two quickly agreed to a partnership and began refining the Goodzer service in April 2010.
"We realized that to build the perfect product search, contacting individual retailers is simply not scalable and would ignore the massive number of smaller independent stores," said Pakhomkin. "Goodzer is truly automated and the size of the retailer is immaterial. The technology does all of the work and is not constrained by the limits of human interaction, which allows us the ability to quickly scale up to expand coverage to more than 1 million retailers nationwide."
Goodzer is available on the web at http://www.goodzer.com and will be available shortly for the iPhone, with plans for the Droid, iPad and other device compatibility underway.
About Goodzer
Founded in the Spring of 2010, Goodzer is an online-to-offline search company that offers consumers a simple location-based service to find any consumer item. Founded by software engineers Dmitry Pakhomkin and Moscow-based Artem Zarutskiy, the company has received angel funding and is planning to scale to national and international retail coverage. A soft launch of the service for the five boroughs of New York City is scheduled before the start of the fall holiday shopping season. For more information, visit http://www.goodzer.com.
SOURCE Goodzer
Goodzer
CONTACT: Belinda Banks, +1-609-750-9110, belinda@sspr.com, for Goodzer
Web Site: http://www.goodzer.com
Online-to-Offline Consumer Product Search Company Goodzer Launches Web and Mobile-based Service for the Holiday Shopping Season
Real-Time Product Searches of 15,000 NYC-Area Brick and Mortar Retailers - Easily Scalable to 1 Million Retail Stores Nationwide
NEW YORK, Nov. 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Goodzer, a unique online-to-offline search service, announced today the availability of its web and mobile tool to consumers searching for products in the Greater New York City area. The service comes before the start of "Black Friday," the starting point of the holiday shopping season.
Goodzer's initial launch covers more than 15,000 brick-and-mortar stores, big and small, in the five boroughs of New York City, including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. Users can instantly search these stores to locate any consumer product imaginable, from iPads to antique jewelry. Search results display product pricing, real-time in-stock status, and distance to the retailer through full integration with Google's Maps and Street View.
The idea for Goodzer's product was developed by Co-Founder and CEO Dmitry Pakhomkin earlier this year. Spurred on by his wife's frustration in spending too much time looking for consumer items, Mr. Pakhomkin tasked himself with creating a specialized online search for brick and mortar retailers. Dmitry began working with Co-Founder Artem Zarutskiy after reading a blog detailing Mr. Zarutskiy's work on a similar localized search program for the Moscow area. Since 2008, Mr. Zarutskiy had been perfecting the brick and mortar search technology ultimately used to power Goodzer. After connecting, the two quickly agreed to a partnership and began refining the Goodzer service in April 2010.
"We realized that to build the perfect product search, contacting individual retailers is simply not scalable and would ignore the massive number of smaller independent stores," said Pakhomkin. "Goodzer is truly automated and the size of the retailer is immaterial. The technology does all of the work and is not constrained by the limits of human interaction, which allows us the ability to quickly scale up to expand coverage to more than 1 million retailers nationwide."
Goodzer is available on the web at http://www.goodzer.com and will be available shortly for the iPhone, with plans for the Droid, iPad and other device compatibility underway.
About Goodzer
Founded in the Spring of 2010, Goodzer is an online-to-offline search company that offers consumers a simple location-based service to find any consumer item. Founded by software engineers Dmitry Pakhomkin and Moscow-based Artem Zarutskiy, the company has received angel funding and is planning to scale to national and international retail coverage. A soft launch of the service for the five boroughs of New York City is scheduled before the start of the fall holiday shopping season. For more information, visit http://www.goodzer.com.
SOURCE Goodzer
Goodzer
CONTACT: Belinda Banks, +1-609-750-9110, belinda@sspr.com, for Goodzer
Web Site: http://www.goodzer.com