It does now, via a data feed into GoogleBase. We just don't show up very high.

You are indeed smart, but we launched this last September. You can be forgiven for missing it, since there's no link to it from the main site and we've done little PR while we are in beta.

No proprietary interface. REST and JSON, open as we can make it.

It doesn't deliver banner ads at all, just product information (prices, online availability, features, specs, images), along with some store-level information (location). We have limited information on store-level availability as well, based on a nightly snapshot, so you can query for things like "Nikon cameras that cost more than $200 within 50 miles of zip 55119" and get a response. Hopefully that's useful and interesting.

Sorry to disappoint you. :D

How do you arrive at that conclusion? It's an open API; how could we possibly be hiding prices? Did you even look at the documentation?

It is like what Amazon did years ago. We're trying to learn from what others have done. Amazon has built a very successful web site and online business, and their web services are a big part of that. The point of Remix is not just to allow access to the catalog; it's to encourage people to innovate with it. - Kevin Matheny, E-Business Architect, BestBuy.com