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On the internet, a price comparison also known as shopping comparison or price engine 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.

Price comparison sites can collect data directly from merchants. Retailers who want to list their products on the website then supply their own lists of products and prices, and these are matched against the original database. This is done by a mixture of information extraction. Comparison sites like wsherbs. com and many more can also collect data through a data feed file. Merchants provide information electronically in a set format.

This data is then imported by the comparison website. Some third party businesses are providing consolidation of data feeds so that comparison sites do not have to import from many different merchants. Affiliate networks such as Cj and Commission Junction aggregate data feeds from many merchants and provide them to the price comparison sites. This enables price comparison sites to monetize the products contained in the feeds by earning commissions on click through traffic.

In recent years, many off the software solutions like FTP have been developed that allow website owner to take price comparison websites data to place retailer prices on their blog or content only website. In return the content website owners receive a small share of the revenue earned by the price comparison website. This is often referred to as the revenue share business model. Price comparison sites like wsherbs. com, shopnagar, a2z are very popular as they help customers finding stores that sell the products they want for the lowest price.

Such sites can earn money in commissions over the sales.