BizRate.com Rockets Into the Top 10 Ranking of Shopping Sites.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 2000 BizRate.com Outranks Yahoo! Shopping, 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. , AltaVista Shopping To Maintain its Position as the Second Largest Online Marketplace(1) in February BizRate.com (www.bizrate.com) has rocketed to a top 10 ranking of all Internet shopping sites, in terms 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. , 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. a February Media Metrix report, further staking the company's position as an e-commerce powerhouse. BizRate.com's number 10 ranking -- up from number 78 almost a year ago -- is a clear indication that consumers are enthusiastically embracing the smarter, more efficient BizRate.com way of shopping. By successfully linking online shoppers with trusted merchants, BizRate.com has firmly established itself as the second largest online marketplace(1), topping familiar online brands such as Yahoo! Shopping and MSN Shopping for two consecutive months. A custom analysis of February Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. from Media Metrix showed BizRate.com strongly ahead of the shopping channels of six major Internet portals including Yahoo, 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). , AltaVista, Excite, Lycos and GO Network. In fact, nearly four million unique visitors used BizRate.com in February, resulting in an audience reach of 5.7 percent (a 20% increase from January's reach of 4.6 %). BizRate.com dramatically outpaced Yahoo Shopping (3.8%), MSN Shopping (3.5%), AltaVista Shopping (2.9%), Lycos Shopping (0.5%), Excite Shopping (0.4%), and GO Network Shopping (0.2%). "By establishing ourselves at the center of e-commerce, BizRate.com is delivering on the promise of the Internet by creating an open and inclusive marketplace for online merchants and a single destination where buyers can easily identify quality e-tailers," 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 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. of BizRate.com. "As we continue to grow at a record-breaking pace, we will build on our relationship with buyers and sellers and offer a suite of tools that make online shopping a swifter and smarter experience for both parties." About BizRate.com Founded in 1996, BizRate.com (http://www.bizrate.com) is an open and comprehensive marketplace, governed by customer ratings, linking millions of online buyers to leading 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 4,000 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, allowing consumers to take the focus away from pure price comparisons. In addition to on its site, BizRate.com's ratings also appear on Consumer Reports Online and Consumer Reports magazine, as well as Microsoft Network See MSN. Microsoft Network - The Microsoft Network , AltaVista, GO Network, Go2Net, Snap, Citibank, iChoose, Brodia, Dealtime and CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. . About Media Metrix Media Metrix, Inc., with over 600 clients, is the leader and pioneer in Internet and Digital Media measurement and the industry's source for the most comprehensive, reliable, and timely audience ratings, e-commerce, advertising and technology measurement services. Through its acquisition of AdRelevance, an innovator in Internet advertising Delivering ads to Internet users via Web sites, e-mail, ad-supported software and Internet-enabled cellphones. Also called an "ad network," Internet advertising organizations act as a middleman between the advertiser and the Web sites and software publishers that display the ads. measurement, Media Metrix has expanded its product offering to include comprehensive data on where, when, how and how much Web marketers and their competition are advertising online. Media Metrix provides leading advertising agencies, new and traditional media companies, e-commerce marketers, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. companies and technology companies with comprehensive coverage of all Digital Media (including more than 21,000 Web sites and online properties). Media Metrix utilizes its patented metering methodology to measure actual Internet and Digital Media audience usage behavior in real-time, click by click, page by page, minute by minute. Media Metrix offers monthly, weekly, and daily data collection and reporting, and a sample of more than 50,000 people under measurement in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Media Metrix has worldwide operations in the U.K, France, Germany, Canada, Sweden and Australia. For more information about Media Metrix, visit: www.mediametrix.com. (1) For this Media Metrix custom report, BizRate.com defined the "Online Marketplace" category as sites that link online shoppers and retailers. Specific sites in the report included: BizRate.com (bizrate.com), Yahoo Shopping (shopping.yahoo.com, search.shopping.yahoo.com), MSN Shopping (eshop.msn.com, shopping.msn.com), AltaVista Shopping (shopping.com, 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 auction sites were also excluded. |
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