shopocalypse
n.— «Revenue sharing for contributed content, however—ka-ching! Easy promotion of such content throughout the Internet, providing lots of quality backlinks and traffic to Yahoo—ka-ching! Could this be the shopocalypse coming—that one perfect storm of a feature set that’ll generate sustained repeat traffic and send the last-generation comparison shopping engines into their dotage?» —“Shopocalypse now” by Greg Yardley Greg Yardley’s Internet Blog Nov. 17, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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