This is July 2008 revision of the Popular Price Comparison web sites list. You can find the last month revision of the list here.

The change in rating shows the difference compared to Juny results. The list has a total of 35 web sites and there are 16 more sites in my database that don’t meet Alexa Rank < 100,000 requirement.

The best gainer this month is thefind.com (26.13%) which has been doing very nicely this year, up to #18 from #27 in December, 2007.

The worst performer is jellyfish.com (-28.48%). This is understandingly. After Microsoft integrated cash back part of the site into Live Search, smack shopping is all that is left of JellyFish.

#	Web Site	Alexa Rank		Page Rank		Online Since
1	shopping.yahoo.com	1 (*)		8		18-Jan-1995
2	froogle.google.com	2 (*)		8		11-Sep-2001
3	shopping.msn.com	6 (*)		7	(-1)	10-Nov-1994
4	shopping.aol.com	21 (*)		7	(-1)	22-Jun-1995
5	shopper.cnet.com (info)	126 (*)	(1.56%)	7		05-Jul-1996
6	shopping.com	429	(-8.88%)	7		03-Jul-1997
7	dealtime.com	531	(-16.19%)	6	(-1)	07-Oct-1998
8	nextag.com	536	(1.29%)	7		15-Oct-1998
9	bizrate.com	642	(0.31%)	7		24-Apr-1996
10	shoplocal.com	823	(3.86%)	7	(-1)	24-Sep-1998
11	pricegrabber.com (info)	971	(-7.89%)	8		10-Mar-1999
12	shopzilla.com	1271	(-2.17%)	5	(-2)	04-Jul-2002
13	epinions.com	1411	(-0.64%)	7		12-Feb-1999
14	pronto.com	1640	(8.94%)	7		01-Jan-2006
15	smarter.com	2060	(-0.64%)	6		28-Apr-1998
16	become.com	3173	(-9.64%)	6		20-Jan-2004
17	pricerunner.com	3657	(14.09%)	6	(-1)	19-May-1999
18 (3)	thefind.com (info)	5240	(26.13%)	6		19-Oct-2006
19	like.com	5739	(8.43%)	6	(1)	22-Feb-1995
20 (2)	calibex.com	5955	(-6.7%)	4		02-Oct-2000
21 (1)	mysimon.com	6903	(-3.31%)	8		15-Apr-1998
22	retrevo.com	7673	(6.48%)	6		10-May-2006
23 (1)	ebates.com	12061	(0.53%)	6		29-Dec-1998
24 (1)	pricewatch.com	12456	(-3.48%)	6		26-Sep-1995
25 (1)	shopwiki.com	16117	(21.91%)	5		15-Dec-2004
26 (1)	dealighted.com (info)	20376	(-10.91%)	6		09-Oct-2006
27	sortprice.com	22613	(-3.69%)	5	(-1)	15-Jan-2004
28	bestwebbuys.com	27518	(-0.78%)	6	(-1)	06-Jan-1998
29	pricescan.com	38530	(-1.86%)	6		03-Sep-1997
30	jellyfish.com	52167	(-30%)	5		26-Jun-2006
31	mpire.com	53733	(-8.7%)	6		01-Jun-2006
32	hawkee.com	63372 (**)	(6.77%)	5		02-Jan-1997
33	bottomdollar.com	66316	(6.48%)	0	(-4)	04-Jul-1997
34	streetprices.com	92439	(-3.51%)	5		16-Oct-1997
35	salescircular.com	98028	(0.67%)	6	(1)	09-Jun-1998

(*) Note: traffic stats for these sites is an aggregate of all traffic to the top domain (e.g. Yahoo.com or Google.com) and thus cannot be used to judge how popular this particular price comparison service is.

(**) Note: the web site is a portal with price comparison engine being one of the offered web services. Alexa rank cannot be used to judge how popular this price comparison engine is.

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By Nora Dunn

Those who are vegetarians, lactose intolerant, or just plain omnivores who like soy products know how much it can hurt the pocketbook. Staying stocked in soy milk, cooking with tofu, and grilling up veggie burgers can be downright financially painful, especially if you have a larger family to feed. But making your own soy products isn’t as difficult as you may think, and you can do it all for literally pennies on the dollar.

The last batch of soy beans I processed cost $1.50 and produced 24 meals. Want to know how? Read on... 

Buy dried soy beans in bulk.

These days you can find them pretty much anywhere; bulk food stores, health food stores, and even pre-packaged in many grocery stores. You’ll need a fair amount, and will probably want to prepare this recipe in larger quantities, so don’t be afraid to stock up.

Soak your