Pluggd for Searching Podcasts

Until now, for months, Keeca Web had been recommending Yahoo Podcasts for searching available podcasts channels on the web. I stumbled upon Pluggd and tried. I like it over Yahoo Podcasts for 2 reasons:

1. Pluggd seems more compatible (or reliable) to play audio on my Mac. Unlike Yahoo Podcasts, where I often ran into problems of not be able to play audio for unknown reasons. Pluggd's play just works, almost every time I clicked.
2. The search term I use return more relevant podcasts channels and episodes, but this is just my personal subjective observations.

You can use Pluggd to discover, listen, and share. In the near future, one exciting feature Pluggd had demonstrated and will roll out is it's capability to allow you to search inside a podcast to find the portions of an audio or video podcast that interest you.

Pluggd has now taken the place of our recommended Podcasts search site as listed on Keeca Web.

Deal Search Result Page Rearranged

Keeca Deal Search result page had changed from 2-column presentation to a 3-columns format. The new format had gone live last night.


At the center of the page, matched deals are shown to catch shoppers eyes. On the left, price comparison sites - BizRate, PriceRunner, Shopping.com, Froogle - are listed to take shoppers directly to the pricing result pages and auto carry over the search term for shoppers. Also, the recommended store merchants are listed on the left where our engine suggest shoppers some highly relevant stores to shop from. In the parentheses, the numbers denote number of deals available offered by that store. On the right, sponsored links are clearly identified.

As a shopper, I'd browse the deals at the center and look for stores on the left to shop from. For searches upon product, the price-comparison links on the upper left really save my time to spot the best price from the most places on the Web. These changes are relatively new and untested, so please, leave comments about what you think. I'm listening.

What's Hot On Keeca Homepage?

The day CrazyEgg opened to the public I jumped in and tried. Basically, if you have a web site and want to see where on a page people click on, you simply deploy CrazyEgg tracking code on your site and see the clicks come. The stats of my first test came in days after enough real visits were captured. To my surprise, the center premium placement of the page got almost no click of interests, which lead to a keeca.com homepage redesign. Whatever visitors were not interested in the central premium placement beneath the search box was pushed down. In stead, 3 125x125 banners were put in to guide visitors. The 2nd test ran then.

The above image shows the Heat Map of the 2nd CrazyEgg test. You see, the general online deal search remains the most interested feature of the site as before, followed by the travel deal banner. On the left, travel also stands out among all different type of deals.

No Registration Required for Printing Grocery Coupons from Keeca

Hassle free, no registration required, print grocery coupons and redeem them in-stores no longer requires you to surrender your email address. Simply point and click, then redeem them in stores. Thanks to Glenn of our partner company to make this happen.

Printable Grocery Coupons from Keeca.com

Through a partnership with our friends in Mountain View, CA, keeca.com now offers printable grocery coupons available and printable right from your desktop. To date, the selections has reached 100 mark and hopefully continue to grow. I took a look today and here are some items for your references as to what these offers are:

• Save $1.00 on Two Boxes Cheerios Cereal
• Save $1.00 on Two any Flavor Yoplait Nouriche
• Rent One Get One Free Hollywood Video DVD, VHS New Releases
• $1.00 Off Odwalla 15.2 oz PomaGrand
• more ...
  

I selected 4 items with simple clicks to check up the ones I want, paged through offers until I was done, clicked on print button. In a minute, the coupons were printed on paper and ready to travel with me to any grocery store on street that takes manufacture coupons. Did I forget to remind you to turn the printer on when printing?

To print grocery coupons from keeca.com, you may need to register with a valid email address where future printable coupons updates can be sent to. We hope to eliminate this registration requirement in the near future because we understand any hurdle stands between your browser and printed coupons should be removed. Also, you must use either IE or Safari for the printing interface compatibility's sake. It may sounds a bit discouraging to FireFox users on Macs like me, but I manage to get around this by shooting up a Safari browser that comes with any Apple computer.

Try it out and leave us comments. Tell up what you like and what not.

For other non-grocery printable coupons, there a tip for you. On keeca.com, use the special secret search term of 'PrintableDeal' and see what you get.