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Shopping Comparison

This is our Shopping and Price Comparison channel, which aims to help you understand how best to work with shopping comparison websites.

Popular Searches for Shopping Comparison

What have our users been searching on lately?

kelkoo, price comparison, pricegrabber, pricerunner, shopping comparison

Latest Shopping Comparison Research

comparison engines 08   Comparison Engines Buyer's Guide 2008

Comparison Engines are becoming increasingly popular among consumers and merchants alike, particularly in sectors such as retail, travel, financial services and utilities.

This buyer's guide is aimed at those investigating the market, with profiles of 16 leading comparison websites, and including detail on the issues and trends affecting this sector, plus tips and pitfalls for merchants about how to maximise their returns from this channel.

Like all our buyer's guides, the report starts with a look at trends in the marketplace. Trends covered in this report include:

- Comparison engines respond to challenges and remain upbeat as sector matures.
- Consumers and merchants call for greater transparency and industry standards.
- Comparison sites branch out into new sectors and reposition themselves as shopping portals.
- Innovate or die: competition and threat of new entrants increases need for differentiation.
- Integration of Web 2.0 technologies and emergence of social shopping.
 
Shopping Comparison Briefing, June 2007
9-page briefing based on an E-consultancy roundtable. Topics discussed included: best practice - datafeeds, taxonomies, choice of comparison site, Financial Services aggregators, pricing models and the multi-channel environment.
 

Shopping Comparison Engines

Here's a list of Shopping Comparison Engines. Click on the name and it'll run a site-wide search to bring back what we have on each.

Cheapflights, Ciao, Confused com, Genie Group, Gocompare, Kayak, Kelkoo, Moneysupermarket, Motley Fool, MSN Shopping, Pangora, PriceGrabber, PriceRunner, Shop com, Shopping com, Shopzilla, Twenga, uswitch

Events on Shopping Comparison

Here's what's coming up:

Shopping and Product Comparison - Roundtable, 25 September 2008, London
A chance to discuss 4 of the most important issues and trends within a particular topic or sector with peers.

Additional Resources

ComparisonEngines.com
ComparisonEngines is a blog dedicated to helping you understand shopping comparison engines.

SEM Top 10: Get More From Your Feeds
An article that explores the various ways in which shopping feeds can be optimised.
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