Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites - December 2009.
This is February 2008 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 January results. The list has a total of 33 web sites and there are 17 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
List hasn’t changed since last month except for ugenie.com (59.16%) who had a nice come back to replace the last position held by streetprices.com. Ugine was in fact the best performer this month. They seem to have had a traffic surge late January after a long decline. Don’t really have an explanation to this other than possibly increased marketing spendings.
The worst performer this month is mpire.com (-44.32%) who I would guess are too busy with their new toy, WidgetBucks, to be able keep an eye on the price comparison business.
| # | Web Site | Alexa Rank | Page Rank | Online Since | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shopping.yahoo.com | 1 (*) | 8 | 18-Jan-1995 | ||
| 2 | froogle.google.com | 4 (*) | 8 | 11-Sep-2001 | ||
| 3 | shopping.msn.com | 6 (*) | 7 | 10-Nov-1994 | ||
| 4 | shopping.aol.com | 51 (*) | (-18.6%) | 7 | 22-Jun-1995 | |
| 5 | shopper.cnet.com | 251 (*) | (-10.09%) | 7 | 05-Jul-1996 | |
| 6 | shopping.com | 433 | (-13.05%) | 7 | 03-Jul-1997 | |
| 7 | dealtime.com | 539 | (-9.55%) | 7 | 07-Oct-1998 | |
| 8 | nextag.com | 822 | (-6.34%) | 6 | 15-Oct-1998 | |
| 9 | bizrate.com | 943 | (-2.39%) | 7 | 24-Apr-1996 | |
| 10 | shoplocal.com | 1305 | (-33.98%) | 8 | (2) | 24-Sep-1998 |
| 11 | pricegrabber.com (info) | 1369 | (-17.92%) | 8 | 10-Mar-1999 | |
| 12 | shopzilla.com | 2273 | (-11.26%) | 7 | 04-Jul-2002 | |
| 13 | epinions.com | 2902 | (-21.78%) | 7 | 12-Feb-1999 | |
14 ( 1) |
pronto.com | 3152 | (10.28%) | 6 | (-2) | 01-Jan-2006 |
15 ( 1) |
smarter.com | 3258 | (-2.87%) | 6 | 28-Apr-1998 | |
| 16 | calibex.com | 3918 | (-8.59%) | 4 | 02-Oct-2000 | |
| 17 | become.com | 5211 | (2.53%) | 6 | 20-Jan-2004 | |
| 18 | pricerunner.com | 7396 | (-12.03%) | 6 | 19-May-1999 | |
| 19 | mysimon.com | 8383 | (-6.83%) | 7 | 15-Apr-1998 | |
| 20 | pricewatch.com | 16967 | (-12.03%) | 6 | 26-Sep-1995 | |
| 21 (4) |
thefind.com | 18175 | (30.59%) | 6 | 19-Oct-2006 | |
| 22 (1) |
ebates.com | 19281 | (-18.73%) | 6 | 29-Dec-1998 | |
| 23 | retrevo.com | 22039 | (1.68%) | 5 | 10-May-2006 | |
| 24 | like.com | 24060 | (7.48%) | 5 | 22-Feb-1995 | |
| 25 (3) |
mpire.com | 30874 | (-44.32%) | 6 | (1) | 01-Jun-2006 |
| 26 | sortprice.com | 31397 | (-2.38%) | 5 | 15-Jan-2004 | |
| 27 | bestwebbuys.com | 33237 | (-6.13%) | 7 | 06-Jan-1998 | |
| 28 | jellyfish.com | 38658 | (-10.69%) | 5 | 26-Jun-2006 | |
| 29 (2) |
shopwiki.com | 46801 | (15.58%) | 5 | 15-Dec-2004 | |
| 30 (1) |
pricescan.com | 48576 | (-16.81%) | 6 | 03-Sep-1997 | |
| 31 (1) |
dealighted.com (info) | 55605 | (-6.12%) | 6 | 09-Oct-2006 | |
| 32 | hawkee.com | 62889 (**) | (0.46%) | 5 | 02-Jan-1997 | |
| 33 (5) |
ugenie.com | 91635 | (59.16%) | 4 | 02-Nov-2006 | |
(*) 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.
I guess ugenie is focusing more on their facebook app – iRead. I don’t see their comparison shopping website anymore.
That is right. Too bad they can’t use iRead as the domain name. It seems to be owned by Scholastic.
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