About Shopping Search Engines

BizRate http://www.bizrate.com BizRate allows you to search for products from hundreds of online vendors. Features include merchant ratings, reviews, price and availability. Allows an easy interface for sorting and searching by price range, brand and other product attributes as applicable. Compare Products button lets you see prices for the same product from multiple vendors. Includes paid listings by vendors as well as free listings. Shopping http://www.shopping.com | http://www.epinions.com | http://www.dealtime.com A major comparison shopping search engines very much like bizrate.com above. Integrates product reviews from Epinions, an unbiased forum for reading and giving product reviews. Owned by DealTime, another shopping search engine site. DealTime includes the ability to calculate tax and shipping based on your zip code when comparing prices. Includes paid listings by vendors. Froogle http://www.froogle.com Comparison shopping search engine from Google. Gathers listings from crawling the web and accepting free product feeds from vendors. Pay Per Click keyword advertisements with "Google" also appear on "Froogle". MSN Shopping http://shopping.msn.com/ MSN Shopping offers some features beyond those mentioned above, including quick links to editor suggestions, free shipping sites, gift ideas and email alert signup. Includes an easy to read department listing for quick linking to the category of product you're searching for. Advertisers on MSN Shopping are your larger retailers with annual advertising budgets >40K. mySimon http://www.mysimon.com/ Easy to use shopping search, featuring many of the same features as bizrate.com and shopping.com. You can see ratings, compare prices, including tax and shipping, see availability. There are varying levels of vendor advertising, including a low cost Pay Per Click model. MySimon is part of the CNET.com network of web sites. Cnet is a global content company that informs, entertains and connects people with a focus on consumer and business technology, games and entertainment. NexTag http://www.nextag.com/ Comparison shopping search engine featuring store ratings, product reviews and a "TruePrice" feature that shows prices including tax and shipping charges. In addition to product categories, the site recently launched sections for Mortgages, Travel (Flights, Car Rental, Hotels, etc.) and Cars. Vendors join a Pay Per Click advertising program, allowing the small retailer to list products on the site. Special leads purchasing is available to Licensed Mortgage Brokers and Real Estate Agents. PriceGrabber http://www.pricegrabber.com/ Comparison shopping search engine with vendor ratings, product condition ratings, product reviews and tax and shipping calculations. Products are listed by stores and individuals selling new or used products. PriceGrabber takes a commission only when the product is sold. (approx. $1 + 4.75%). Site is available in English and Spanish. Yahoo Shopping http://shopping.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Shopping connects you with thousands of merchants-traditional retail stores, name-brand catalog companies, small boutiques, and specialty vendors that create and host their web sites with "Yahoo Store". Pay Per Click listings are available to retailers outside the Yahoo Store network. Amazon http://www.amazon.com Reviews and price comparisons categorized and searchable. In a similar fashion to "Yahoo Store", Amazon offers a store creation and hosting service. Vendors can also sell used and new items individually on Amazon, like they can on pricegrabber.com. Amazon takes a commission only when the product is sold. Other Good To Know About Web Sites People: http://www.switchboard.com - reverse phone number lookup http://people.yahoo.com - phone number or email address of name entered Travel: http://www.tripadvisor.com Information: http://www.lii.org - Librarians Index to the Internet http://www.about.com - Collection of sites on many subjects. Medical: http://www.webmd.com Law: http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com - Google powered search of "legal issues" sites. Jobs: http://www.flipdog.com Government: http://www.google.com/unclesam Art: http://www.artcyclopedia.com Local Business: http://local.google.com - Type in business type and city,state -NEW