September 22, 2003:

Shopping.com has launched anew as a combination of the old Dealtime and Epinions sites. This newly relaunched shopping search engine includes the price comparison features and product meta data from Dealtime and consumer reviews from Epinions. Both of the other two sites will continue to operate separately. The shopping.com search gives narrowing options for price, brand, and product-specific features. It also offers several sorting options such as price, rating, relevance, and store rating. These narrowing and sorting options are a welcome change from the most general Web search engines that offer no such sorting capabilities. The site is most useful for commonly-available products since it has a fair number of larger stores in its database. I found zero hits on some more unusual products. The database scope is limited in that there are many online stores not included. Read more in their press release.

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