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Entries Tagged as 'Comparison shopping engines'

Consumer Reports study: Comparison shopping for prescription drugs saves big bucks

September 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

From CNBC:

“A national price study conducted by Consumer Reports and led by Tod Marks showed just how widely prices can vary on the same drugs in pharmacies throughout the country. The survey found that the prices of four particular prescription drugs can vary by as much as $340, and up to $100 even within [...]

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Tags: Comparison shopping engines · Drug costs · Prescription drugs

eDrugSearch.com tops 100,000 drug listings

June 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

We’re very proud to have upgraded our comparison shopping engine to now include more than 100,000 real-time drug listings from our 36 member pharmacies. That’s up from 30,000 listings when we launched in January 2007.
Two big reasons for the increase: we’ve added more pharmacies, and we’ve updated our backend to make it much [...]

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Tags: Comparison shopping engines · Specialty search engines

How do you know you can trust an online retailer?

April 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

eDrugSearch.com was founded on the premise that it can be difficult to know which online retailers you can trust — particularly when the product is prescription medications, and you are comparison shopping for the best price.
It’s not worth saving a few dollars (or even a lot of dollars) to risk being ripped off [...]

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Tags: Comparison shopping engines · Drug safety · Online pharmacy safety · eDrugSearch.com

Comparison shopping engines always looking for a better equation

April 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Saul Hansell at the New York Times has written an interesting piece on Zillow, the real estate valuation site that is now getting into mortgage comparison shopping. What I found most intriguing is how Hansell characterized his views on comparison shopping engines generally:
I’ve been in love with the potential of online services to turbocharge [...]

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Tags: Comparison shopping engines · Specialty search engines