04-05-2006, 12:35 PM
Quote:ShopWiki is a shopping search engine that indexes retail products from thousands of online stores. ShopWiki is not a store and does not sell anything. The purpose of the site is to help consumers find the products they are looking for online with ease. ShopWiki offers:
More Stores
* ShopWiki crawls more than 125,000 stores to ensure you find the best product and price available.
Complete Searches
* The search function on ShopWiki offers a variety of options from a simple product search to one with more details. Our system allows you to narrow down your search by numerous variables, including price, special features and brand. You can even find a particular product from a specific store. See our Sample Searches page for some examples.
Wiki Buying Guides
* The wiki premise is simple: Every user has the ability to change, edit and update content on the site. It also means that every user that contributes to the site becomes a part of our wiki community.
* This site features numerous buying and gift guides to help narrow down your search options. Written by users like yourself, ShopWiki buying guides define some of the complex terms and give the insight you desire to find the best product for your needs.
* Want to contribute? Check out our writing wiki content page for some helpful tips.
http://www.shopwiki.com/wiki/Help:Why+Shopwiki
Quote:ShopWiki is almost ready to launch. The site claims to crawl more than 120,000 stores which, if true, would make it one of the most comprehensive comparison shopping engines.
http://www.comparisonengines.com/2006/03...-horowitz/
Quote:Which brings me back to Dulance and similar shopping search engines which dont depend on merchant feeds but rather crawl the web for merchants and associated products. These shopping engines dont impose price floors and get paid through affiliate programs or reasonable pay per click fees. Which means that these services can move past 5,000 merchants, past 50,000 merchants, and maybe past 100,000 merchants hitting the long tail and possibly becoming an order of magnitude better than the current field of shopping comparison engines. Yes, there are still many issues to deal with around building an incredible user experience, but hopefully youre getting the picture.
full article: http://www.comparisonengines.com/2006/03...-knew-you/
ShopWiki web site: http://www.shopwiki.com/