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Popular price comparison sites – October 2006

Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites – March 2011.

This is October 2006 revision of the Popular Price Comparison web sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.

Thanks to your feedback I have added quite a few web sites. The rank change for them is marked as (n/a) while the rest of the sites have the actual rank change since September.

I have noticed an interesting thing. Since lower Alexa rank means higher popularity the negative change is actually good and should be marked green. I have done the green part right but I didn’t keep the “negative” sign. Likewise the positive change is correctly marked red but I added the “negative” sign to it — it just looks more natural this way.

The biggest gainer is become.com with the rank increase of 18.1%. This is not surprising at all. The team is busy adding some very cool features which obviously gets noticed.

The biggest looser unexpectedly (at least for me) is shopwiki.com with a decrease in Alexa rank of 27.0%. Could it be a sign that between the quantity of the search results and their quality consumers really choose the latter?

# Web Site Alexa Rank  Page Rank Online Since
1 shopping.yahoo.com 1(*) 9 18-Jan-1995
2 froogle.google.com 3(*) 9 11-Sep-2001
3 shopper.cnet.com 100(*) (-4.2%) 8 05-Jul-1996
4 nextag.com 459 (+9.5%) 7 15-Oct-1998
5 pricegrabber.com 469 (-4.7%) 8 10-Mar-1999
6 shopping.com 470 (2.1%) 8 03-Jul-1997
7 bizrate.com 512 (1.2%) 8 24-Apr-1996
8 epinions.com 1036 (0.1%) 8 12-Feb-1999
9 shopzilla.com 1073 (3.9%) 8 04-Jul-2002
10 dealtime.com 1166 (-0.1%) 8 07-Oct-1998
11 pricerunner.com 3724 (n/a) 3 (n/a) 19-May-1999
12 pricewatch.com 4205 (-1.3%) 7 26-Sep-1995
13 mysimon.com 4325 (-7.8%) 8 15-Apr-1998
14 ebates.com 5046 (n/a) 6 (n/a) 29-Dec-1998
15 become.com 7605 (18.1%) 6 20-Jan-2004
16 pricescan.com 16094 (-2.2%) 6 03-Sep-1997
17 sortprice.com 16150 (n/a) 5 (n/a) 15-Jan-2004
18 mpire.com 16307 (n/a) 5 (n/a) 03-Aug-2000
19 streetprices.com 27366 (-0.2%) 6 16-Oct-1997
20 activeshopper.com 31765 (-4.9%) 4 12-Jan-1999
21 shopwiki.com 33660 (-27.0%) 5 15-Dec-2004
22 jellyfish.com 41899 (n/a) 4 (n/a) 26-Jun-2006
23 pointshop.com 49015 (-9.3%) 7 17-Apr-1998
24 bottomdollar.com 54223 (-14.0%) 0 04-Jul-1997
25 salescircular.com 58278 (n/a) 6 (n/a) 09-Jun-1998
26 thefind.com 71882 (n/a) 2 (n/a) 19-Oct-2006
27 hawkee.com 79931(**) (n/a) 6 (n/a) 02-Jan-1997
28 retrevo.com 85274 (n/a) 4 (n/a) 10-Apr-2006
29 compare123.com 161292 (-0.4%) 5 11-Apr-2002
30 sprenzy.com 230684 (n/a) 4 (n/a) 02-Mar-2006
31 aimlower.com 591374 (-7.4%) 5 02-Oct-2000
32 roboshopper.com 736592 (-6.9%) 6 02-Aug-1997

(*) Note: traffic stats for these sites is the aggregate of all traffic to the top domain (e.g. Yahoo.com or Google.com) and thus cannot be used to judge how popular this particular price comparison service is.

(**) Note: the web site is a portal with price comparison engine being one of the offered web services. Alexa rank cannot be used to judge how popular this price comparison engine is.


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2 Responses to “Popular price comparison sites – October 2006”


  1. 1 Leander Nov 23rd, 2006 at 9:03 pm

    Smarter.com is also a popular price comparison site with a good alexa rank.
    :)

  2. 2 Yan Dec 3rd, 2006 at 10:10 pm

    The discussion for this blog post is closed. To leave your comments please go to the latest revision of the list.

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