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Searching for the best deal on books especially textbooks? Well there are quite a few sites that you can go to search for books. Recently an new website ugenie (still in BETA) claims that it not only finds the best price on a single product, but on groups of products which it calls a 'bundle'.To do so ugenie has developed an algorith m that searches about 40 web sites for information about prices of books, movies, music, and games to come up with the cheapest bundles that consumers can buy from these shopping sites. To search for textbook on Ugenie click here . Other Books search website The book search engine that allows you to comparison shop more than 40 online bookstores including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Borders. You can expect the most complete book search and the best price Internet-wide when you use AddAl CampusBooks searches dozens of bookstores, thousands of sellers, and millions of new and used textbooks to find you the lowest textbook prices on the Internet. ...

Here I am going to list few shopping website that don't make sense at any level other than being well packaged and meeting some VC's (Venture Capitalist - as my good friend would call it poor S@#K$r) checklist for a Shopping web 2.0 site. Have we reached a web 2.0 bubble? These website would validate it - excess supply of money chasing few good ideas and irrational exuberance (anything social networking gets money). Here is my WhatTheHell list 1) Stylefeeder 2) This Next 3) Yub 4) Crowd Storm (Winner of WhatTheHell Award)

Price optimization software now making it possible to price product based on customers behavior, sales history, competitors' price, product mix and the fact that people are hard-wired to love sales - when we see good deal (mark down), a different part of the brain lights up than with a loss (price rise) Read more about it in this AP article - Software helps some stores decide when the price is right Some results of price-optimization software: Like many national companies, one electronics retailer priced batteries the same all over — until SAP's Khimetrics software showed that consumers in Dallas were generally willing to pay more for batteries than people in Boston. The data revealed another twist: The battery that had the highest "price sensitivity" in Dallas had the lowest price sensitivity in Boston. In other words, while Texans would buy this particular battery only within a narrow price range, Bostonians were far less picky. The store altered its prices accordin...

MSN Money -Zogby customer-service survey. Read more about it click on the article below The Customer Service Hall of Shame How companies were ranked Here's a look at our full results: "Poor" "Fair" "Good" "Excellent" Bottom 10 Sprint Nextel 40% 28% 25% 7% Bank of America 30% 25% 32% 13% Comcast 30% 33% 28% 10% Time Warner Cable 29% 35% 28% 8% AT&T 26% 36% 31% 7% Citibank 24% 34% 35% 8% Wal-Mart 23% 32% 32% 13% Verizon 22% 31% 36% 11% Wells Fargo 21% 27% 38% 14% DirecTV 20% 29% 33% 17% Dishonorable mentions Dell 19% 26% 40% 15% Circuit City 19% 35% 39% 8% Best Buy 14% 31% 42% 13% Home Depot 13% 29% 43% 14% Sears 12% 33% 45% 10% Macy's 10% 30% 47% 13%

Good/Interesting website (web 2.0) WikiMapia WikiMapia is a Web 2.0 project to describe the whole planet Earth. It was created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, inspired by Google maps and Wikipedia. Like Wikipedia individuals get to identify landmarks that matter to them and help increase the total information available on a map. Interesting ideas, blogs and website on enhancing you online shopping experience Like.com It’s the first true visual search engine, where the contents of photos are used to search and retrieve similar items. They believe that there are literally millions of items that are difficult to describe via text-based search and where individual tastes are all over the map -- think of your favorite pair of earrings or shoes and what an ordeal it can be to find some thing new but in a similar style. Like.com utilizes our Likeness Technology™ to create a digital signature that describes the photo's contents and enables a more accurate search for similar...