BizRate.com Notches Up Media Metrix Rankings to Become the Eighth-Most-Visited Shopping Site on the Web.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2000 BizRate.com, the Web's largest open shopping marketplace, has emerged as one of the titans of e-commerce, staking its claim as the eighth-most-visited(1) shopping site on the Web, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. recently announced May 2000 Media Metrix rankings. By contrast, just over a year ago BizRate.com ranked a mere 78th place in terms of the number of unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. to its site. During 2000 BizRate.com has steadily gained traffic momentum, having grown from the 12th-most-visited shopping site in December to 10th place in February and ninth in April, according to Media Metrix. "Our continued climb up the rankings is an unmistakable sign that consumers are passionately embracing the BizRate.com way of shopping," said Chuck Davis  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. Charles E. , president and chief executive officer of BizRate.com. "BizRate.com connects buyers and sellers in the Web's smartest and most efficient way. We provide consumers with all their shopping choices conveniently housed in one place, and give shoppers confidence through our buyer ratings." BizRate.com has also achieved traffic and reach figures far beyond those of the well-known shopping portals. According to an April 2000 custom analysis by Media Metrix, BizRate.com had 4,168,000(2) unique visitors in April, up 34% since January, translating to a 5.6% reach -- 65% larger than Yahoo Shopping's reach (3.4%), twice the reach of Alta Vista See AltaVista. (World-Wide Web) Alta Vista - A World-Wide Web site provided by Digital which features a very fast Web and Usenet search engine. As of April 1996 its word index is 33GB in size. Shopping (2.8%), and more than three times the combined total reach of Excite Shopping (1.0%), Lycos Shopping (0.4%) and Go Network Shopping (0.3%). References: 1. According to Media Metrix' Shopping Category: Home/Work Report for May 2000. 2. According to a custom report compiled by Media Metrix for April 2000. For this Media Metrix report, BizRate.com defined the "Online Marketplace" as sites that link online shoppers and online retailers. Specific sites in the report included: BizRate.com (BizRate.com), Yahoo Shopping (Shopping.yahoo.com) MSN Shopping MSN Shopping is a member site of the MSN portal. MSN Shopping today is an online comparison shopping site. It aggregates millions of product offers from thousands of retailers. MSN Shopping allows users to search or browse for products. (eshop.msn (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). .com, shopping msn.com), AltaVista Shopping (shopping.altavista.com), Excite Shopping (shopping.excite.com), Lycos Shopping (shop.lycos.com) and Go Network Shopping (shop.go.com). AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Shopping, the presumed leader, utilizes a proprietary platform and was not included in this report. Online retailers and sites were also excluded. About BizRate.com Founded in 1996, BizRate.com (http://www.bizrate.com) is an open and comprehensive marketplace, governed by customer ratings, leading millions of online buyers to thousands of online merchants each month. As a trusted market-maker, BizRate.com combines valuable customer-generated information with a powerful set of shopping tools to help online shoppers confidently and easily decide where to buy online. BizRate.com's proprietary customer ratings form the backbone of the marketplace and are derived from its position as the only company trusted by more than 4,600 online stores to collect direct customer feedback and transactional information at the point of every purchase. These ratings, widely recognized as the standard for customer satisfaction on the Web, are the only statistically rigorous way of differentiating retailers on "quality of service" metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. , allowing consumers to take the focus away from pure price comparisons. BizRate.com's ratings are also available on Consumer Reports Online and Consumer Reports magazine, as well as Microsoft Network See MSN. Microsoft Network - The Microsoft Network , Alta Vista, Go Network, Go2Net, Snap, Citibank, iChoose, Brodia and CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. . |
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