Talk:Comparison shopping website

message: I'm not sure that I have written this in the best way. Many of the early services websites now do not work, so I didn't bother linking. Following what seems to be the style elsewhere on Wikipedia, I have linked to a list of working price comparison sites elsewhere. I have also merged this article with Price engine and Online shopping directories. If anybody thinks that was the wrong decision, please advise what to do instead.
Also - I have quite a good knowledge of the price comparison industry as I work in it. I have tried to maintain a completely neutral point of view, but if it seems that I haven't please feel free to say. Also, that means that I know some information that I can't actually find sources for on Google. Is it worthwhile adding that information? Blowski 20:26, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Structure and NPOV Questions

message: What a great topic, will be following this with interest.  How can I contact Blowski?
:Probably best just to leave a message on my talk page. Blowski 08:29, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Price comparison service  

message: This page is mostly about the technology of price comparison. There is a small history that includes when the biggest services were launched. It is not a directory of price comparison services - there are over 100 UK based sites alone, so this article would become meaningless. Those sites that can be considered notable are listed in the List of price comparison services article, so please add any other sites to that page. Blowski 13:04, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Price Comparison Sites 

message: Wikipedia has a highest rank at Google:
http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Groupware/Wiki/Topics/?il=1
Wikipedia is a directory indeed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Price_comparison_services
Many people try to publish links to their websites on Wikipedia to improve PageRank. Unfortunately, equality does not mean 'improvement' over other's PageRanks...
Some major players are listed in Wikipedia-Directory. For instance, NexTag. It has more referrals from Wikipedia than CNET. Overral PageRank of CNET is higher.
(Funtick 20:39, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  PageRank of Wikipedia 

message: What about groceries? Are there any up and running comparison pricing sites for groceries? --195.210.230.226 22:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grocery? 

message: I've trimmed these down to include only sites that compare like for like products (which is the model described) and to highlight only the largest one or two from each geographic market (since we're not a directory and we have a category to link to articles on significant, individual engines).  I used Alexa to determine the largest sites, but if someone has a better way of gauging please suggest it.  -- Siobhan Hansa 13:07, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Having the examples just seems to encourage people to add more and more without any real encyclopedic value.  I suggest getting rid of all them and only mentioning a particular service provider if there is some reason to do so that provides encyclopedic information about the subject of price comparison sites in general.  Any objections? -- SiobhanHansa 00:09, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

text: We need some history with links of course; who was the first (I believe PriceGrabber which does absolutely nothing "grabber"-related!); we need also to highlight differences in technology: there are at least hundreds Price comparison service engines around, and all are re-publishing RSS, ATOM etc feeds of merchants, including PriceGrabber, Google, etc... There are just a few attempts to build truly Robot based Shopping Search Engine: BBF (they are the first), Dulance (not really... metasearch using services of Google&MSN&Yahoo etc. is not truly "search" with own crawler, with signature)... and recent additions to the list: ShopWiki, Pronto(?), Tokenizer (may be more)...
Funtick (talk) 20:24, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Funtick - do you have any sources (magazine articles for instance) about any of this?  It would be great to get dome of this differentiation properly explained and documented. -- SiobhanHansa 02:29, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

text: Since there were no objections I've gone ahead and removed all of them.  -- SiobhanHansa 15:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example listings 

message: I propose that the "Comparison shopping agent" article be merged into the "Price comparison service" article. I think both articles share the same subject. "Price comparison service" is longer and better written. "Comparison shopping agent" might offer some information that could improve "Price comparison service". -- The Aviv (talk) 19:35, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: *Speedy close the category discussion. Renaming categories is handled by a different process. Please issue a WP:CFD CFR request -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 05:23, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: *Is that really necessary? This is the category's main article, so surely a consensus to rename the one is a consensus to rename the other. Do you know of some way to notify the regulars at CfD of this discussion? —Neil 07:32, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

text: *Okay, thanks for the explanation! I've removed the category from the proposal for now. —Neil 14:44, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: A tad pompous and overbearing, perhaps?  Skinsmoke (talk) 06:40, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language 

message: I question the usefulness of this text in the history section:
The history section ought not to be a list of every comparison shopping website that's been started.  It probably restrict itself to cover the earliest sites and later but particularly notable ones.  If the name dropping above is included at all, it should either be in a special Asia/Southeast Asia section of "price comparison sites throughout the world," and explain why "Especially South-East Asia has been a place for many new comparison websites." - GretLomborg (talk) 17:35, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Dropping In History Section 

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message: looking at this section: 
In the United Kingdom, these services made between £780m and £950m in revenue in 2005[1][needs update]. Hence, E-commerce accounted for an 18.2 percent share of total business turnover in the United Kingdom in 2012. Online sales already account for 13% of the total UK economy, and its expected to increase to 15% by 2017. There is a huge contribution of comparison shopping websites in the expansion of current E-commerce industry.[2]
Is based on defective numbers. 
https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/retailindustry/timeseries/j4mc/drsi
and 
https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/itandinternetindustry/bulletins/ecommerceandictactivity/2016
give much better figures on UK ecommerce, and at least are reliable (ONS) 
The first issue. Figures are wrong and it claims that things are linked which are not (the word Hence is a good indicator of this). 
Second is that the figure which is claimed 18.2 percent of total turnover is both inaccurate and in any case is based on a defenition of e-commerce has been used to include both EDI and what the public think ecommerce is ie Website transactions. EDI is b2b electronic ordering using specific file formats for the data transfer - ie. a totally different beast. 
Can someone look at this and fix it! I'm rather busy atm. 
Elvisbrandenburgkremmen (talk) 23:38, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serious errors in financial facts here 

message: Add relevant reference from the biggest country in terms of population. Kanaiyajain (talk) 10:32, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Information about Comparison shopping website in India