Update: for the latest revision of this list go to Popular price comparison sites - March 2011.
This is February 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 January 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 retrevo.com with a gain of (8.58%) followed by hawkee.com (7.77%). They take the lead from shopwiki and calibex who were in the first and second spot last month
The worst performer this month is dealighted with a sharp drop of (-34.64%). Delighted is keeping steady at #29 with spikes and drops here and there
| # | Web Site | Alexa Rank | Page Rank | Online Since | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 ( 1) | froogle.google.com | 1 (*) | 7 | 11-Sep-2001 | ||
2 ( 1) | shopping.yahoo.com | 2 (*) | 8 | 18-Jan-1995 | ||
| 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) | 153 (*) | (-2%) | 8 | 05-Jul-1996 | |
| 7 | nextag.com | 432 | (-0.23%) | 7 | 15-Oct-1998 | |
| 8 | shopping.com | 520 | (-5.69%) | 7 | 03-Jul-1997 | |
| 9 | bizrate.com | 600 | (-5.45%) | 7 | 24-Apr-1996 | |
| 10 | shoplocal.com | 829 | (-33.71%) | 7 | 24-Sep-1998 | |
| 11 | shopzilla.com | 1027 | (-2.7%) | 6 | 04-Jul-2002 | |
12 ( 1) | pronto.com | 1135 | (-1.79%) | 8 | 01-Jan-2006 | |
13 ( 1) | pricegrabber.com (info) | 1176 | (-6.62%) | 7 | 10-Mar-1999 | |
| 14 | smarter.com | 1727 | (1.03%) | 5 | 28-Apr-1998 | |
| 15 | epinions.com | 2033 | (-1.25%) | 7 | 12-Feb-1999 | |
| 16 | thefind.com (info) | 2185 | (5.45%) | 6 | 19-Oct-2006 | |
| 17 | dealtime.com | 2417 | (-3.38%) | 6 | 07-Oct-1998 | |
18 ( 2) | shopwiki.com | 3756 | (6.45%) | 5 | 15-Dec-2004 | |
19 ( 1) | become.com | 3821 | (-2.77%) | 6 | 20-Jan-2004 | |
20 ( 1) | pricerunner.com | 4330 | (-8.55%) | 6 | 19-May-1999 | |
| 21 | dealio.com | 4409 | (-1.26%) | 5 | 08-Sep-2004 | |
| 22 | like.com | 5781 | (-6.76%) | 6 | 22-Feb-1995 | |
| 23 | retrevo.com | 5893 | (8.58%) | 6 | 10-May-2006 | |
24 ( 1) | calibex.com | 7117 | (0.38%) | 5 | 02-Oct-2000 | |
25 ( 1) | mysimon.com | 7834 | (-2.94%) | 8 | 15-Apr-1998 | |
26 ( 2) | ebates.com | 8533 | (-26.45%) | 5 | 29-Dec-1998 | |
| 27 | pricewatch.com | 13841 | (-3.61%) | 6 | 26-Sep-1995 | |
| 28 | bottomdollar.com | 19357 | (-23.55%) | 7 | 04-Jul-1997 | |
| 29 | dealighted.com (info) | 22192 | (-34.64%) | 5 | 09-Oct-2006 | |
| 30 | sortprice.com | 29668 | (-12.69%) | 5 | 15-Jan-2004 | |
| 31 | bestwebbuys.com | 34283 | (-3.18%) | 6 | 06-Jan-1998 | |
32 ( 1) | hawkee.com | 39939 (**) | (7.77%) | 6 | 02-Jan-1997 | |
33 ( 1) | pricescan.com | 40876 | (-20.11%) | 6 | 03-Sep-1997 | |
| 34 | streetprices.com | 64641 | (-1.7%) | 5 | 16-Oct-1997 | |
| 35 | mpire.com | 74704 | (-7.67%) | 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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