Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites - March 2011.
This is September 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 August results. The list has a total of 34 web sites which is the same number as last month. There are 17 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
One website is probably going to be out of the list very soon, jellyfish.com (-50.87%) which is the worst performer this month and currently stand at the last position. After Microsoft integrated cash back part of the site into Live Search, JellyFish is technically no longer a price comparison site. Smack shopping is all that is left of it.
The best gainer this month is bottomdollar.com (54.74%) which had a terrific month according to Alexa. If anyone has an explanation to this phenomena - speak out! ;-)
| # | Web Site | Alexa Rank | Page Rank | Online Since | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shopping.yahoo.com | 1 (*) | 8 | 18-Jan-1995 | ||
| 2 | froogle.google.com | 2 (*) | 7 | (-1) | 11-Sep-2001 | |
| 3 | shopping.msn.com | 6 (*) | 7 | 10-Nov-1994 | ||
| 4 | shopping.aol.com | 21 (*) | (-5%) | 7 | 22-Jun-1995 | |
| 5 | shopper.cnet.com (info) | 144 (*) | (-9.92%) | 7 | 05-Jul-1996 | |
| 6 | shopping.com | 519 | (-10.66%) | 6 | (-1) | 03-Jul-1997 |
| 7 | nextag.com | 536 | (-1.13%) | 6 | (-1) | 15-Oct-1998 |
| 8 | bizrate.com | 609 | (3.79%) | 7 | 24-Apr-1996 | |
9 ( 1) | shoplocal.com | 910 | (-7.82%) | 7 | 24-Sep-1998 | |
| 10 (1) | pricegrabber.com (info) | 1183 | (-11.39%) | 8 | 10-Mar-1999 | |
| 11 (1) | shopzilla.com | 1263 | (-0.4%) | 6 | (-1) | 04-Jul-2002 |
| 12 (1) | pronto.com | 1276 | (13.49%) | 8 | (1) | 01-Jan-2006 |
13 ( 4) | dealtime.com | 1313 | (-87.04%) | 6 | 07-Oct-1998 | |
| 14 | epinions.com | 1663 | (-9.62%) | 7 | 12-Feb-1999 | |
| 15 | smarter.com | 1866 | (8.35%) | 5 | (-1) | 28-Apr-1998 |
| 16 (2) | thefind.com (info) | 3284 | (21.1%) | 6 | 19-Oct-2006 | |
| 17 (1) | become.com | 3591 | (-8.56%) | 6 | 20-Jan-2004 | |
| 18 (1) | pricerunner.com | 3603 | (-3.45%) | 6 | 19-May-1999 | |
| 19 | like.com | 4473 | (9.32%) | 6 | 22-Feb-1995 | |
| 20 | calibex.com | 7249 | (-22.86%) | 4 | 02-Oct-2000 | |
| 21 (1) | retrevo.com | 7303 | (6.32%) | 6 | 10-May-2006 | |
| 22 (1) | mysimon.com | 7895 | (-8.78%) | 7 | (-1) | 15-Apr-1998 |
| 23 | shopwiki.com | 8255 | (30.67%) | 5 | 15-Dec-2004 | |
| 24 | ebates.com | 11363 | (6.21%) | 5 | (-1) | 29-Dec-1998 |
| 25 | pricewatch.com | 14533 | (-8%) | 6 | 26-Sep-1995 | |
| 26 (1) | sortprice.com | 24579 | (-2.43%) | 4 | (-1) | 15-Jan-2004 |
| 27 (1) | bestwebbuys.com | 25122 | (4.81%) | 6 | 06-Jan-1998 | |
| 28 (2) | dealighted.com (info) | 25212 | (-9.7%) | 6 | 09-Oct-2006 | |
| 29 (2) | bottomdollar.com | 25216 | (54.74%) | 0 | 04-Jul-1997 | |
| 30 (1) | pricescan.com | 43207 | (-8.79%) | 6 | 03-Sep-1997 | |
| 31 (1) | hawkee.com | 51449 (**) | (11.78%) | 5 | 02-Jan-1997 | |
| 32 (2) | mpire.com | 56041 | (-1.02%) | 5 | (-1) | 01-Jun-2006 |
| 33 (1) | streetprices.com | 89874 | (6.16%) | 5 | 16-Oct-1997 | |
| 34 (1) | jellyfish.com | 98705 | (-50.87%) | 5 | 26-Jun-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.
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