Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites - October 2008.
This is November 2007 revision of the Popular Price Comparison web sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.
The change in rating shows the difference compared to October results. The list has a total of 34 web sites and there are 15 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
retrevo.com (27.67%) had the best rating change in November after launching a redesign and getting to a few popular blogs. I evaluated their “value map” when it was just announced and honestly I don’t see much value in it. The analysis is too sketchy to my liking. When I shop for a gadget I tend to dig much deeper.
The worst result comes from smarter.com (-16.95%). I don’t have an explanation to this other than a guess that they possibly stopped sinking money into advertising. 
| # | Web Site | Alexa Rank | Page Rank | Online Since | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shopping.yahoo.com | 1 (*) | 8 | 18-Jan-1995 | ||
| 2 | froogle.google.com | 2 (*) | 8 | 11-Sep-2001 | ||
| 3 | shopping.msn.com | 5 (*) | 7 | 10-Nov-1994 | ||
| 4 | shopping.aol.com | 53 (*) | (-1.92%) | 8 | 22-Jun-1995 | |
| 5 | shopper.cnet.com | 194 (*) | (-8.38%) | 8 | 05-Jul-1996 | |
| 6 | shopping.com | 410 | (7.03%) | 8 | 03-Jul-1997 | |
| 7 | dealtime.com | 533 | (2.74%) | 7 | 07-Oct-1998 | |
| 8 | nextag.com | 880 | (2%) | 6 | 15-Oct-1998 | |
| 9 | bizrate.com | 1027 | (-8.56%) | 7 | 24-Apr-1996 | |
10 ( 1) |
shoplocal.com | 1089 | (24.53%) | 7 | 24-Sep-1998 | |
11 ( 1) |
pricegrabber.com | 1162 | (0.43%) | 8 | 10-Mar-1999 | |
| 12 | epinions.com | 2249 | (-0.4%) | 8 | 12-Feb-1999 | |
| 13 (1) |
shopzilla.com | 2261 | (6.76%) | 7 | 04-Jul-2002 | |
| 14 (1) |
smarter.com | 2822 | (-16.95%) | 6 | 28-Apr-1998 | |
| 15 | calibex.com | 4293 | (-4%) | 4 | 02-Oct-2000 | |
| 16 | pronto.com | 4689 | (11.23%) | 8 | 01-Jan-2006 | |
| 17 | pricerunner.com | 6629 | (2.28%) | 6 | 19-May-1999 | |
| 18 | become.com | 6867 | (15.25%) | 6 | 20-Jan-2004 | |
| 19 | mysimon.com | 9654 | (8.83%) | 8 | 15-Apr-1998 | |
| 20 | pricewatch.com | 13745 | (-2.52%) | 6 | 26-Sep-1995 | |
| 21 | ebates.com | 15200 | (5.04%) | 6 | 29-Dec-1998 | |
| 22 (1) |
mpire.com | 22075 | (19.48%) | 5 | 01-Jun-2006 | |
| 23 (1) |
jellyfish.com | 25548 | (6.86%) | 5 | 26-Jun-2006 | |
| 24 (1) |
bestwebbuys.com | 28276 | (-1.05%) | 7 | 06-Jan-1998 | |
| 25 (3) |
sortprice.com | 28959 | (-14.42%) | 6 | 15-Jan-2004 | |
| 26 | like.com | 30458 | (-0.62%) | 5 | 22-Feb-1995 | |
| 27 | thefind.com | 36810 | (-8.76%) | 6 | 19-Oct-2006 | |
| 28 (1) |
retrevo.com | 37598 | (27.67%) | 5 | 10-May-2006 | |
| 29 (1) |
pricescan.com | 41878 | (8.34%) | 6 | 03-Sep-1997 | |
| 30 (2) |
dealighted.com (info) | 57058 | (23.8%) | 6 | 09-Oct-2006 | |
| 31 | hawkee.com | 62574 (**) | (7.77%) | 5 | 02-Jan-1997 | |
| 32 (2) |
shopwiki.com | 63062 | (5.96%) | 5 | 15-Dec-2004 | |
| 33 | bottomdollar.com | 95757 | (-16.49%) | 8 | 04-Jul-1997 | |
| 34 (1) |
streetprices.com | 97602 | (10.02%) | 5 | 16-Oct-1997 | |
(*) Note: traffic stats for these sites is an 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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