Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites - March 2011.
This is January 2009 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 December results. The list has a total of 35 web sites which is the same number as the last month. There are 17 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.
The best performer this month is shopwiki.com with a gain of (16.82%) followed by calibex.com (13.65%). They take the lead from ebates and shoplocal who were in the first and second spot for a couple months in a row
The worst performer this month is mpire which is dying slow death ever since the team abandoned the project in favor of widgetbucks shopping ads platform
| # | Web Site | Alexa Rank | Page Rank | Online Since | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shopping.yahoo.com | 1 (*) | 8 | 18-Jan-1995 | ||
| 2 | froogle.google.com | 2 (*) | 7 | 11-Sep-2001 | ||
| 3 | live.com | 4 (*) | 8 | 22-May-2008 | ||
| 4 | shopping.msn.com | 6 (*) | 7 | 10-Nov-1994 | ||
| 5 | shopping.aol.com | 28 (*) | 7 | 22-Jun-1995 | ||
| 6 | shopper.cnet.com (info) | 150 (*) | (0.66%) | 8 | 05-Jul-1996 | |
| 7 | nextag.com | 431 | (7.71%) | 7 | 15-Oct-1998 | |
| 8 | shopping.com | 492 | (-1.65%) | 7 | 03-Jul-1997 | |
| 9 | bizrate.com | 569 | (-3.08%) | 7 | (5) | 24-Apr-1996 |
| 10 | shoplocal.com | 620 | (2.97%) | 7 | 24-Sep-1998 | |
| 11 | shopzilla.com | 1000 | (8.17%) | 6 | 04-Jul-2002 | |
12 ( 1) |
pricegrabber.com (info) | 1103 | (4.75%) | 7 | 10-Mar-1999 | |
13 ( 1) |
pronto.com | 1115 | (0.89%) | 8 | 01-Jan-2006 | |
| 14 | smarter.com | 1745 | (2.62%) | 5 | 28-Apr-1998 | |
| 15 | epinions.com | 2008 | (0.45%) | 7 | 12-Feb-1999 | |
| 16 (1) |
thefind.com (info) | 2311 | (4.11%) | 6 | 19-Oct-2006 | |
| 17 (1) |
dealtime.com | 2338 | (-5.98%) | 6 | 07-Oct-1998 | |
| 18 | become.com | 3718 | (-4.61%) | 6 | 20-Jan-2004 | |
| 19 | pricerunner.com | 3989 | (0.82%) | 6 | 19-May-1999 | |
| 20 (2) |
shopwiki.com | 4015 | (16.82%) | 5 | 15-Dec-2004 | |
| 21 (1) |
dealio.com | 4354 | (0.77%) | 5 | 08-Sep-2004 | |
| 22 (1) |
like.com | 5415 | (-16.88%) | 6 | 22-Feb-1995 | |
| 23 (1) |
retrevo.com | 6446 | (11.37%) | 6 | 10-May-2006 | |
| 24 (1) |
ebates.com | 6748 | (-7.76%) | 5 | 29-Dec-1998 | |
| 25 (1) |
calibex.com | 7144 | (13.65%) | 5 | 02-Oct-2000 | |
| 26 (1) |
mysimon.com | 7610 | (6.27%) | 8 | 15-Apr-1998 | |
| 27 | pricewatch.com | 13359 | (3.66%) | 6 | 26-Sep-1995 | |
| 28 | bottomdollar.com | 15667 | (-5.92%) | 7 | 04-Jul-1997 | |
| 29 | dealighted.com (info) | 16482 | (-0.06%) | 5 | 09-Oct-2006 | |
| 30 | sortprice.com | 26326 | (-2.93%) | 5 | 15-Jan-2004 | |
| 31 | bestwebbuys.com | 33226 | (-0.08%) | 6 | 06-Jan-1998 | |
| 32 | pricescan.com | 34033 | (0.51%) | 6 | 03-Sep-1997 | |
| 33 | hawkee.com | 43305 (**) | (12.49%) | 6 | 02-Jan-1997 | |
| 34 (1) |
streetprices.com | 63560 | (9.22%) | 5 | 16-Oct-1997 | |
| 35 (1) |
mpire.com | 69384 | (-13.6%) | 5 | 01-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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