12-19-2005, 10:31 AM
Quote:So what's with the interest in the online comparison-shopping search engine category?
Corporations like Yahoo Inc., eBay Inc. and E.W. Scripps Co. collectively have spent $1.6 billion since last year buying the pan-European Kelkoo, Shopping.com and Shopzilla, respectively. And now marketing services giant Experian bought PriceGrabber.com for $485 million.
"I think the reason why there's such fascination for the comparison-shopping search business is that we operate in the sweet spot area: commercial search," said Harry Tsao, co-founder of Smarter.com, Monrovia, CA, one of the few major independent comparison-shopping services left.
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