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History
PriceRunner was launched in 1999 as a price comparison service On the internet, a price comparison service allows individuals to see different lists of prices for specific products. Most price comparison services do not sell products themselves, but source prices from retailers from whom users can buy. In the UK, these services made between £120m and £140m in revenue in 2005 , and is growing at an annual based in Sweden Sweden (pronounced /ˈswiːdən/ SWEE-dən, Swedish: Sverige [ˈsvær.jə]), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige (help·info)), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and water borders with Denmark, Germany and and originally financed by a venture capitalist group called Cell Ventures[1], who were later acquired by NewMedia Spark. It launched the service in the UK The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland[note 7] is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many small islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land and Denmark Denmark (pronounced /ˈdɛnmɑrk/ ; Danish: Danmark, pronounced [ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊], archaic: [ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊]) is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders in 2000. Initially, they had planned to become a pan-European service[2], but some of these services were closed down in 2002 after poor financial performance.
In August 2004, it was acquired by ValueClick ValueClick is a Westlake Village, CA-based online advertising company, which provides online advertising campaigns and programs for advertisers and advertising agency customers in the United States and internationally. It operates in four segments: Media, Affiliate Marketing, Comparison Shopping, and Technology, an online media company, for £16 million ($29 million).[3]
Further expansion saw PriceRunner reopen the French France (pronounced /ˈfrænts/ frantss or /ˈfrɑːnts/ frahnts; French pronunciation (help·info): [fʁɑ̃s]), officially the French Republic (French: République française, pronounced: [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a state in Western Europe with several of its overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, office in August 2004, go into Germany A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, has been known and documented before AD 100. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted until 1806. During the 16th century, northern Germany became the centre of the Protestant Reformation. As a modern nation-state, in October of the same year[4], and the US in October 2005[5].
In 2006, it announced that it would launch a partnership service with 118118, a UK phone based service, to provide prices to people by SMS[6]. This followed an earlier failure to enter the mobile market in 2002 by providing price tracking through the site. In October, MSN announced that their Shopping sites in France and the UK would be powered by PriceRunner and Shopping.com[7]. They had previously been powered by Kelkoo The website Kelkoo is a European price comparison service founded in France in 1999, allowing customers to find information on products they want to purchase, including price and seller information. . It was bought by Yahoo! in 2004. It operates in 10 countries, including UK, France, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, and.
In 2007-8 PriceRunner also set up partnerships with Ask, the Energy Saving Trust Energy Saving Trust is a non-profit organisation jointly funded by the British Government and the private sector in order to help fight climate change by promoting the sustainable use of energy, energy conservation and to cut carbon dioxide emissions in the United Kingdom, MSN MSN is a collection of Internet sites and services provided by Microsoft. The Microsoft Network debuted as an online service and Internet service provider on August 24, 1995, to coincide with the release of the Windows 95 operating system and Which? Which? is a product-testing and campaigning charity with a magazine and website run by Which? Ltd . Based in the United Kingdom, it engages in advocacy campaigns on various consumer protection issues and aims to promote informed consumer choice in the purchase of goods and services, by testing products, highlighting inferior products or services, providing them with shopping engines for their websites.
Technology
PriceRunner uses a combination of screen scraping Data scraping is a technique in which a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from another program retailers' websites and files supplied by the retailers themselves. These prices are matched against a backend database. This is done both by using a fuzzy logic Fuzzy logic is a form of multi-valued logic derived from fuzzy set theory to deal with reasoning that is approximate rather than precise. In contrast with "crisp logic", where binary sets have binary logic, fuzzy logic variables may have a truth value that ranges between 0 and 1 and is not constrained to the two truth values of classic automatching system and manually by admin staff.
Business model
PriceRunner is similar to other price comparison services in that it is financed by advertisers, who pay on a pay per click Pay Per Click is an Internet advertising model used on websites, in which advertisers pay their host only when their ad is clicked. With search engines, advertisers typically bid on keyword phrases relevant to their target market. Content sites commonly charge a fixed price per click rather than use a bidding system model. It also uses web banners A web banner or banner ad is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web. This form of online advertising entails embedding an advertisement into a web page. It is intended to attract traffic to a website by linking to the website of the advertiser. The advertisement is constructed from an image , JavaScript program or multimedia object employing provided by sister company, advertising network ValueClick Media.
Notes
- ^ http://www.pricerunner.com/about.html 'About Us' page on PriceRunner.com
- ^ http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/10528/pricerunner-offers-europe--wide-price-comparison.html Pricerunner offers Europe-wide price comparison
- ^ http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/157038/valueclick-acquires-pricerunner.html e-consultancy article: ValueClick acquires Pricerunner
- ^ http://www.netimperative.com/2004/10/12/Pricerunner_Germany Pricerunner launches in Germany
- ^ http://www.comparisonengines.com/2005/07/26/pricerunner-announces-launch-in-the-us/ PriceRunner Announces Launch in the US
- ^ https://www.netimperative.com/2006/07/03/PriceRunner PriceRunner teams with 118 118
- ^ http://www.webpronews.com/financial/news/wpn-64-20061002EuropePriceRunnerMakesDealWithMSN.html Europe: PriceRunner Makes Deal With MSN
External links
- PriceRunner US site
- PriceRunner UK site
- PriceRunner Canada website
- Pricerunner Danmark
- PriceRunner Sweden website
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MarketWatch (press release) ValueClick brands include Commission Junction, ValueClick Media, Mediaplex, PriceRunner and Smarter.com. For more information, visit www.valueclick.com.
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So, with a world of choice out there for obtaining your internet connection, who should you go to? What should you look for? Who are the best? Read through our easy to use guide for some pointers. | . PriceRunner. News Room.
Q. We are looking to recruit new forum moderators to help answer people questions and start up new conversations on current affairs and new products. In exchange for forum activity, moderators can be will awarded up to 500 worth of goods from PriceRunner per annum - What would be the best way of advertising this as, alas, I have no budget?
Asked by Hope it helps! - Tue Jun 17 06:56:55 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments
A. You can try a free traffic Exchange service like TrafficSwarm at You can try article marketing at an article submission service like and link back to your website in the resource box for your articles. You can also comment on popular blogs that allow linkbacks to your URL. Create a video and upload it to YouTube with your URL flashed on the screen. All of these are free.
Answered by ryan 7 - Wed Jun 18 02:02:16 2008
