Become.com Launches Integrated Web Search and Comparison Shopping; Adds Comparison Shopping to Its Product Research Service to Empower Web Consumers.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Become.com Become.com is a product search and comparison shopping start-up company located in Mountain View, CA. It was founded by entrepreneurs Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun who founded mySimon. Become.com was voted the Best of the Web by Forbes Magazine and Business Week during 2005 and 2006. , a search engine that helps people find product reviews and relevant buying information, today announced the availability of a beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. of its comparison shopping service. This new service helps consumers find the best deals on over 5-million products and services from a wide range of online merchants. The comparison shopping service is tightly integrated with Become.com's research index of over 3-billion pages to give consumers unparalleled access to the best shopping information. "Existing search engines provide general results that are manipulated in favor of upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of. See also: favor stores, and comparison shopping engines lack the comprehensive research information necessary to choose the best product for your needs," said Michael Yang Michael Yang (Korean: 양민정, Hanja: 梁民正, born August 31 1961) is a Korean-American Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, California. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder. "Become.com is fully integrated and allows consumers to first research a product, find the one they want, comparison shop for that product, and if they desire, research it again against other comparable products -- all on a single site. This helps people to shop more effectively and make better use of their time and money." Become.com's comparison shopping service allows consumers to find products that interest them and view photos, descriptions, and other relevant buying information. Finally, they can compare actual prices (including shipping costs and tax) from a wide variety of stores to find the best deal. As part of the comparison shopping service, Become.com is also unveiling 'My Favorites Another term for bookmarks, which was popularized by Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. See favicon and Internet Explorer. .' This innovative new feature allows users to save product information for later reference, and compare similar products side-by-side. It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have great for everything from building shopping and wish lists, to creating a new wardrobe A wardrobe (sometimes called an "armoire") is a cabinet used for storing clothes. The earliest wardrobe was a chest, and it was not until some degree of luxury was attained in regal palaces and the castles of powerful nobles that separate accommodation was provided for the for back-to-school. Become.com's research service, which complements its comparison shopping service, helps consumers determine the product that best meets their needs by locating relevant information such as buying guides, expert reviews, forums, articles, product recalls, and other highly targeted resources. The shopping search engine uses Become.com's proprietary AIR(TM) technology (Affinity Index Ranking) to deliver exceptional search results. Become.com has shown tremendous momentum in 2005, reaching significant milestones and producing a constant stream of innovative products: --3-billion page product-focused web search index --Affinity Index Ranking (AIR(TM) technology), Become.com's patent pending technology for providing exceptionally relevant search results --Product-focused Spelling Correction --Dynamic Search Suggestions: provides users with search recommendations in real time as they type --News Search: provides users with breaking news articles on product information, safety and services of interest --Comparison Shopping: access to over 5 million online products --My Favorites: allows users to save and easily compare product information --Top Talent: search engine industry experts Jon JON Jonah JON Jesus of Nazareth JON Job Order Number JON Johnston Island, US, Outlying Islands (Airport Code) Glick from Yahoo! Search This article is about the Yahoo! Search Engine. For the corporation, see Yahoo! ; for other uses see Yahoo! (disambiguation). The search engine Introduction Yahoo! Search is a web search engine, owned by Yahoo!, Inc. and Greg Haslam from Nextag were hired to accelerate product and business development efforts --Funding: raised $7.2 million in second-round funding to fuel its continued growth and expansion About Become.com Become.com is a new search engine and comparison shopping site that helps people find product reviews and buying information on millions of products and shop for those products from brand name retailers from across the web. Founded by Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun, founders of pioneering online comparison shopping site mySimon, Become.com indexes over 3-billion pages of shopping related information and uses proprietary AIR(TM) (Affinity Index Ranking) technology to deliver targeted and relevant information for shopping searches. |
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