Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites - March 2011.
This is November 2006 revision of the Popular Price Comparison web sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.
The best performer this month is TheFind with a gain of 66.49% followed closely by JellyFish (64.35%). I can attribute TheFind growth to the relatively recent launch of the search engine. It is usual for a newly launched web site to experience a spike in popularity. There is no question that JellyFish has earned its gains due to the extremely popular Smack Auctions. I hope the trend doesn’t reverse after holidays are over.
Among other gainers: Retrevo (32.8%) is still riding the success of its recent launch and ShopWiki (25.67%) has recently gone through a web site redesign therefore the new interest from the public.
The worst performer this month is BottomDollar loosing ground by -23.23%. I don’t really have an explanation for this. Maybe you have a clue?
| # | 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 | 109(*) | (-9%) | 8 | 05-Jul-1996 | |
| 4 | shopping.com | 435 | (7.45%) | 8 | 03-Jul-1997 | |
| 5 | nextag.com | 436 | (5.01%) | 7 | 15-Oct-1998 | |
| 6 | pricegrabber.com | 485 | (-3.41%) | 8 | 10-Mar-1999 | |
| 7 | bizrate.com | 524 | (-2.34%) | 8 | 24-Apr-1996 | |
| 8 | epinions.com | 1014 | (2.12%) | 8 | 12-Feb-1999 | |
| 9 | shopzilla.com | 1029 | (4.1%) | 8 | 04-Jul-2002 | |
| 10 | dealtime.com | 1047 | (10.21%) | 8 | 07-Oct-1998 | |
| 11 | pricerunner.com | 3655 | (1.85%) | 3 | 19-May-1999 | |
| 12 | smarter.com | 4196 | (n/a) | 6 | (n/a) | 28-Apr-1998 |
| 13 | pricewatch.com | 4414 | (-4.97%) | 7 | 26-Sep-1995 | |
| 14 | mysimon.com | 4705 | (-8.79%) | 8 | 15-Apr-1998 | |
| 15 | ebates.com | 5252 | (-4.08%) | 6 | 29-Dec-1998 | |
| 16 | become.com | 6635 | (12.75%) | 6 | 20-Jan-2004 | |
| 17 | like.com | 7475 | (n/a) | 3 | (n/a) | 22-Feb-1995 |
| 18 | mpire.com | 14072 | (13.71%) | 5 | 03-Aug-2000 | |
| 19 | jellyfish.com | 14936 | (64.35%) | 4 | 26-Jun-2006 | |
| 20 | pricescan.com | 16318 | (-1.39%) | 6 | 03-Sep-1997 | |
| 21 | sortprice.com | 18154 | (-12.41%) | 5 | 15-Jan-2004 | |
| 22 | thefind.com | 24087 | (66.49%) | 0 | 19-Oct-2006 | |
| 23 | shopwiki.com | 25018 | (25.67%) | 5 | 15-Dec-2004 | |
| 24 | streetprices.com | 31286 | (-14.32%) | 6 | 16-Oct-1997 | |
| 25 | activeshopper.com | 31477 | (0.91%) | 4 | 12-Jan-1999 | |
| 26 | pronto.com | 31604 | (n/a) | 3 | (n/a) | 01-Jan-2006 |
| 27 | retrevo.com | 57301 | (32.8%) | 4 | 10-May-2006 | |
| 28 | salescircular.com | 63138 | (-8.34%) | 6 | 09-Jun-1998 | |
| 29 | ugenie.com | 63808 | (n/a) | 2 | (n/a) | 02-Nov-2006 |
| 30 | bottomdollar.com | 66821 | (-23.23%) | 0 | 04-Jul-1997 | |
| 31 | hawkee.com | 71415(**) | (10.65%) | 2 | 02-Jan-1997 | |
| 32 | pepperjam.com | 97216 | (n/a) | 2 | (n/a) | 21-Feb-2000 |
(*) 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.
Great list. I was surprised to see only two vertical or category specific websites on the list, cnet and retrevo. oh, btw, where’d you get the Wink tagging button?
- m
Thanks and welcome. I am trying to avoid vertical price comparison engines. Those you mentioned look horizontal to me.
The button came with Airabove WordPress plugin by Robert Arnesson. You can get one for yourself here:
http://www.airabove.com/wordspread
Comscore data on comparison engines:
http://www.csestrategies.com/c.....omsco.html
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