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PriceGrabberFrom Grabware To PriceGrabberThe story of PriceGrabber: Part 1 from Niall Kennedy, inspired by the Xooglers.
From Grabware To PriceGrabber
PriceGrabber.com Announces Strategic Alliance with MSN Shopping"PriceGrabber.com, a leader in online comparison shopping, has formed a strategic alliance with MSN (Nasdaq:MSFT) to further increase the selection of products available on MSN Shopping." PriceGrabber Announces Strategic Alliance with MSN The press release is sparse, I am seeking clarification... added I talked to Chris Jolley, Group Programming Manager, MSN Shopping. The main thing is this does not replace the primary MSN Shopping site that is being built, it is a non-exclusive supplement to that site. But a very big, important addition nonetheless. This gives MSN enough listings to satisfy shoppers for the holiday season. It also gives them a critical mass of reviews, which not only helps with shopping, it also makes people more likely to add their own reviews. Chris could not pin down a time for the new data to be integrated, but he did say the beta site would be up again fairly soon (note: it came down last Friday and currently displays a welcome page). MediaPost has a few more details. Interesting integration issues, like how to go about adding reviews to products that are PriceGrabber listings. + + + So, we have primary shopping engines, we have metashopping engines, and now we have primary shopping engines that are supplemented by other primary shopping engines. In this way, the comparison shopping landscape is starting to look more like the web search landscape.
PriceGrabber.com Announces Strategic Alliance with MSN Shopping
WashingtonPost.com Hosts Discussion With PriceGrabber CEODiscussion with PriceGrabber CEO Kamran Pourzanjani (washingtonpost.com)
WashingtonPost.com Hosts Discussion With PriceGrabber CEO
Alexa Rank: Shopping.com vs. NexTag.com vs BizRate.com vs. PriceGrabber.comNot that Alexa is the most scientic source of traffic measurement, but it is interesting to see how the leading engines have converged.
Alexa Rank: Shopping.com vs. NexTag.com vs BizRate.com vs. PriceGrabber.com
Q&A with PriceGrabber.com's CEO at BusinessWeekBusinessWeek has a Q&A session with PriceGrabber CEO Kamran Pourzanjani. I have only one problem with this article. The main heading talks about a shopping aid, then the sub-heading uses the term price-comparison site, as if they were one and the same. Price comparison and shopping comparison are not synonymous. Price comparison is only one part in the big picture of shopping comparison. Admittedly, the site name includes the word price, and many people use it for price comparison, but PriceGrabber also includes feature finders, ratings and reviews. Industry insiders have said, "the percentage of people who sort by price is actually quite low." Patricia Seybold reported that price comparison was secondary to shopping activities such as product discovery and checking availability. If shoppers are looking beyond price comparison, we need to look beyond it, too. Anyway, the article is a nice summary of what is going on over at PriceGrabber, check it out.
Q&A with PriceGrabber.com's CEO at BusinessWeek
PriceGrabber's Revenue = $26.9M in 2003Another scoop by way of the travel search engine article at FT.com: "Pricegrabber's revenue has grown from $52,000 in 1999 to $26.9m in 2003." A quick search traces it back to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (PDF). The "Fast 500 PDF" also mentions that PriceGrabber has 85 employees.
PriceGrabber's Revenue = $26.9M in 2003
PriceGrabber Travel Search EnginePriceGrabber has made public the flights-only piece of their upcoming travel search engine. Accorded to the Financial Times, PriceGrabber plans to add hotels and car rentals in the near future. I'll be looking into this more in-depth as part of the upcoming Travel Search Engine Shootout. If it has any remarkable features, I'll add it to the Airfare page of the Organized Shopping project. via the award-winning Search Engine Lowdown
PriceGrabber Travel Search Engine
Shopping Search Week 2004 at Search Engine Watch (3 of 4)Day #3 - summaries of NexTag, PriceGrabber, Shopping.com/Dealtime and Yahoo Shopping.
Shopping Search Week 2004 at Search Engine Watch (3 of 4)
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