Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites - May 2009.
This is July 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 June results. The list has a total of 35 web sites and there are 16 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
The best gainer this month is thefind.com (26.13%) which has been doing very nicely this year, up to #18 from #27 in December, 2007.
The worst performer is jellyfish.com (-28.48%). This is understandingly. After Microsoft integrated cash back part of the site into Live Search, smack shopping is all that is left of JellyFish.
| # | 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 | 6 (*) | 7 | (-1) | 10-Nov-1994 | |
| 4 | shopping.aol.com | 21 (*) | 7 | (-1) | 22-Jun-1995 | |
| 5 | shopper.cnet.com (info) | 126 (*) | (1.56%) | 7 | 05-Jul-1996 | |
| 6 | shopping.com | 429 | (-8.88%) | 7 | 03-Jul-1997 | |
| 7 | dealtime.com | 531 | (-16.19%) | 6 | (-1) | 07-Oct-1998 |
| 8 | nextag.com | 536 | (1.29%) | 7 | 15-Oct-1998 | |
| 9 | bizrate.com | 642 | (0.31%) | 7 | 24-Apr-1996 | |
| 10 | shoplocal.com | 823 | (3.86%) | 7 | (-1) | 24-Sep-1998 |
| 11 | pricegrabber.com (info) | 971 | (-7.89%) | 8 | 10-Mar-1999 | |
| 12 | shopzilla.com | 1271 | (-2.17%) | 5 | (-2) | 04-Jul-2002 |
| 13 | epinions.com | 1411 | (-0.64%) | 7 | 12-Feb-1999 | |
| 14 | pronto.com | 1640 | (8.94%) | 7 | 01-Jan-2006 | |
| 15 | smarter.com | 2060 | (-0.64%) | 6 | 28-Apr-1998 | |
| 16 | become.com | 3173 | (-9.64%) | 6 | 20-Jan-2004 | |
| 17 | pricerunner.com | 3657 | (14.09%) | 6 | (-1) | 19-May-1999 |
18 ( 3) |
thefind.com (info) | 5240 | (26.13%) | 6 | 19-Oct-2006 | |
| 19 | like.com | 5739 | (8.43%) | 6 | (1) | 22-Feb-1995 |
20 ( 2) |
calibex.com | 5955 | (-6.7%) | 4 | 02-Oct-2000 | |
| 21 (1) |
mysimon.com | 6903 | (-3.31%) | 8 | 15-Apr-1998 | |
| 22 | retrevo.com | 7673 | (6.48%) | 6 | 10-May-2006 | |
| 23 (1) |
ebates.com | 12061 | (0.53%) | 6 | 29-Dec-1998 | |
| 24 (1) |
pricewatch.com | 12456 | (-3.48%) | 6 | 26-Sep-1995 | |
| 25 (1) |
shopwiki.com | 16117 | (21.91%) | 5 | 15-Dec-2004 | |
| 26 (1) |
dealighted.com (info) | 20376 | (-10.91%) | 6 | 09-Oct-2006 | |
| 27 | sortprice.com | 22613 | (-3.69%) | 5 | (-1) | 15-Jan-2004 |
| 28 | bestwebbuys.com | 27518 | (-0.78%) | 6 | (-1) | 06-Jan-1998 |
| 29 | pricescan.com | 38530 | (-1.86%) | 6 | 03-Sep-1997 | |
| 30 | jellyfish.com | 52167 | (-30%) | 5 | 26-Jun-2006 | |
| 31 | mpire.com | 53733 | (-8.7%) | 6 | 01-Jun-2006 | |
| 32 | hawkee.com | 63372 (**) | (6.77%) | 5 | 02-Jan-1997 | |
| 33 | bottomdollar.com | 66316 | (6.48%) | 0 | (-4) | 04-Jul-1997 |
| 34 | streetprices.com | 92439 | (-3.51%) | 5 | 16-Oct-1997 | |
| 35 | salescircular.com | 98028 | (0.67%) | 6 | (1) | 09-Jun-1998 |
(*) 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.
Hi,
Thanks for a great job putting together this list. Would be interesting to see TestFreaks on the list also, get in touch with me if you need additional information.
Stefan
TestFreaks.com
This website is new on the product search engine: http://www.octoprice.co.uk/.
It offers free listing for shops…do you think that it has a future?
Mark
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