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ReliaQuote Web Site Tops Survey.


ReliaQuote is the best life insurance quote service on the Web, according to according to
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 Internet information services See IIS.  company ShopServe.com.

ShopServe, which provides information, advice and services to consumers through its own Web site, conducted a "ShopTest" of nine online insurance quote services, judging them on usability How easy something is to use. Both software and Web sites can be tested for usability. Considering how difficult applications are to use and Web sites are to navigate, one would wish that more designers took this seriously. See user interface and usability lab. , consumer information and competitive price quotes.

McLean McLean, city (1990 pop. 38,168), Fairfax co., N Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C. Manufacturing includes foods, satellite components, and computer and telecommunications equipment. , Va.-based ReliaQuote offers the best combination of those elements, according to ShopServe. San Francisco-based SelectQuote offered the cheapest quotes but still ranked seventh overall. QuoteSmith was ranked second, followed by AccuQuote, InsWeb, QuickenInsurance, InsuranceGateway.com, SelectQuote, LifeQuote and e-term.

To conduct its ShopTest, ShopServe created profiles of three hypothetical Hypothetical is an adjective, meaning of or pertaining to a hypothesis. See:
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 consumers whose personal data were submitted to the nine services. After generating quotes for each consumer, the sites were rated for user friendliness, quality of consumer information and price, ShopServe said.
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