Comments on: Become.com – Sneak Peek at it’s Price Comparison Engine

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Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:40:15 +0000

[...] ltiple amenities at once (Become.com’s new price comparison engine will feature this type of system). After narrowing down choices, users can sort hotels by rating or price. Ratings seem to [...]

By: Derek Drew

Derek Drew — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:07:01 +0000

Note that the content at http://www.productopia.com is content ported over from http://www.consumersearch.com. Productopia essentially ceased operations in early 2001. The consumersearch.com content was offered at that URL because of the similarity of brand missions of the two URLs. The idea was to serve consumers who had earlier bookmarked the productopia URL and were looking for that kind of information.

By: Sean O'Rourke

Sean O'Rourke — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:50:17 +0000

I’ve been expecting someone on the product side to do attributes more like they do on the travel side, same-screen dynamic refreshes with checkboxes. If so, that will make attribute-based search appeal to a wider audience, IMO.