This article about online shopping is in three parts:
Online Shopping with Comparison Shopping Search Engines
Comparison shopping search engines not only find the item you're looking for, but they give you a list of comparison prices in order for you to find a discount, compare prices from competitors, and finally make a purchase. Here are some of the best comparison shopping search sites on the Web (Some of these may overlap with the General Shopping Search Engines.)ComparisonEngines.com
ComparisonEngines.com: Brian Smith's very detailed yet refreshingly readable site on comparison engines. "Through interviews with key players, guest commentary, case studies, analysis of news and events, and comparisons of features, readers will gain an in depth understanding of online comparison engines, a rapidly growing facet of online shopping."OrganizedShopping.com
OrganizedShopping.com:Sean O'Rourke's excellent and extremely organized site on anything and everything to do with shopping and search. Make sure to check out the sitemap; this is where you'll find the entire contents of this extremely large and informational site.Kelkoo
Kelkoo.com is a comparison shopping search engine based in Europe, for Europe, and owned by Yahoo. According to the company's website, "within 2 years of launching, Kelkoo became Europe's largest e-commerce website after Amazon and Ebay and the largest e-commerce advertising platform both in the UK and Europe."PriceGrabber.com
PriceGrabber is a excellent choice for anyone who wants to find something quickly with a minimum of fuss. Pricegrabber's simple layout and fast delivery of results makes it very easy to find, compare, and buy.CNet Shopper
For the geeks in your life, CNet Shopper is a must-have bookmark for anything to do with technology. Includes "comprehensive product information, specs, professional reviews, and tech-savvy user reviews."NexTag.com
Not only can you compare prices for any product you're looking for at NexTag, but you can also compare mortgages, travel, cars and more.PriceScan.com
Compare prices on all sorts of good stuff, from apparel to movies to watches and more. One unique thing about PriceScan is that they do not take money from vendors in order to appear on PriceScan's pages: "At PriceSCAN we believe that consumers should have access to unbiased reporting on products and prices. It seems obvious to us that if a price guide restricts its listings to those vendors who have paid to be included, then its database more accurately reflects the source of its revenue, not necessarily the best products at the lowest prices. At PriceSCAN we accept no money from any vendors for listing their products and prices."BottomDollar.com
BottomDollar.com is owned by PriceGrabber. One thing I particularly appreciate about BottomDollar is after you click on the results, say for a SanDisk 1GB Memory Stick PRO Duo Card, you can enter in your zip code in order to get savings on shipping (who knows, you might find a deal close enough to drive to).BestWebBuys.com
BestWebBuys.com allows you to search "thousands of online stores" in order to find the best web buy (hence the name). According to the site, "some of the stores give additional discounts to Best Web Buys customers." Worth a look.SortPrice.com
With an extensive product comparison index, SortPrice is a great shopping search engine, with a unique feature: Shop, Drag, and Drop, "an innovative tool used to compare products that allows consumers to maintain a virtual shopping list while navigating through millions of products from thousands of online stores. By dragging the selected products into an easy to use shopping list, those products can then be compared side by side, providing useful product information to help shoppers make a more informative buying decision."Keep going to read about online auction sites.
