DiscountMore.com Offers Unique New Twist to Comparison Shopping Websites.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- DiscountMore.com, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Idea Labz, Corp., www.IdeaLabz.com , and sister company to BidRent.com and BidSell.com - today officially launched its Meta-Shopping website whereby consumers can get the results of the top 24 comparison shopping sites all on one page. The company approaches the online comparison shopping industry with a new twist. Their point of view is that comparison shopping sites like Shopping.com Shopping.com is a price comparison service. Shopping.com used to be called DealTime.com. It was founded in Israel in 1998 by Dr. Nahum Sharfman and Amir Ashkenazi, whose original idea was to create a downloadable client that would monitor changes in prices of products the user , PriceGrabber.com, ShopZilla Founded in June 1996 by Farhad Mohit and Henri Asseily as Binary Compass Enterprises, the company changed its name to BizRate.com in January 1999 and finally to Shopzilla in November of 2004. .com, PriceRunner.com and Shopper.com are essentially search engines similar to Google (Google, Mountain View, CA, www.google.com) The largest search engine on the Web, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University students. In 1996, they developed their "BackRub" search engine, named after its unique page ranking method (explained below). and Yahoo. The difference is comparison shopping sites search for products and prices, as opposed to news and websites. The problem online shoppers are faced with, Founder-Creator 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. Bobby Kalili explains, "There are so many comparison shopping sites, who really has the lowest price?" The solution, Kalili continues, is to, "search the top comparison shopping sites all at the same time and get the results all on one page." 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. Mike Ebrahimi, the newly elect President of DiscountMore, "This is the only way to find out who really has the lowest price for individual products. If every comparison shopping site has a different price for the same product, some more expensive, some cheaper on the same exact product, how are shoppers supposed to find out which shopping engine has the best price? DiscountMore.com solves this problem. We are first to market with this technology and we are 100% free to use." The company has taken their unique Meta-Shopping search a step further by showing results from online auction sites eBay.com, ubid.com, Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Overstock.com and Buy.com. "We want to give our users a broad scope of results when they search for specific products. I think most people would be curious to know if the product they are searching for is listed on eBay and for how much. Amazon.com, Walmart.com and Buy.com are not comparison shopping engines, however they have a lot of volume and buying power Buying Power The money an investor has available to buy securities. In a margin account, the buying power is the total cash held in the brokerage account plus maximum margin available. Also referred to as "Excess Equity. and they should be checked as well," said Kalili. Within the past few years, new players have come in like Smarter.com and PriceScan.com. However, according to Kalili, "They are all trying to recreate the wheel. They offer nothing new or original. The Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the does not need any more Comparison Shopping Engines." Kalili goes on further to say, "The last piece to the comparison shopping puzzle “Puzzle solving” redirects here. For the concept in Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of science, see normal science. A puzzle is a problem or enigma that challenges ingenuity. is to gather the results from all of them and show them on one page as MetaCrawler.com and DogPile.com did with traditional search engines like Yahoo and Google back in the mid 1990's." DiscountMore is simultaneously launching the same "Search the Shopping Search Engine" service in Canada with DiscountMore.ca, the UK with DiscountMore.co.uk and Australia with DiscountMore.com.au. The company targeted the top 20 comparison shopping search engines in each country and each will have over a dozen country specific shopping search engines. The company is planning on a Christmas 2006 jump in traffic as U.S. consumers find out about the DiscountMore service. |
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