E-commerce, e-commerce, or eCommerce?
Which is the correct term: e-commerce, e-commerce, eCommerce, or just ecomm for short? The name and spelling of e-commerce have evolved over the last 30 years, and so have the technologies and job skills required to work in this field. This reading provides a summary of e-commerce's evolution by describing the history of the term and laying out the four distinct models within e-commerce that have emerged over the years. Like most everything on the internet, e-commerce — although it hasn't been around that long — has evolved and changed a lot. What started as electronic commerce, quickly progressed into e-commerce, ecommerce, or eCommerce. But how can you know which one to use? In this course, you'll see e-commerce used. That's, in part, because Google Trends — a website that analyzes the popularity of top search queries in Google Search — shows most people prefer using e-commerce , as opposed to e-commerce or eCommerce . Since the word is a combination of two ...
