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NexTag in the News
NexTag Ranked #2 in Holiday Customer Satisfaction
NexTag scores second place in customer satisfaction in Nielsen Online's Holiday Survey. 87% of respondents reported being "very satisfied" with NexTag, followed by 86.6% of respondents being satisfied with Amazon, and 84.3% with Yahoo Shopping. Netflix topped the list with a score of 90.3%.
Nielsen Online, December 19, 2007
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A Universe of Gadget Advice
NexTag, at www.nextag.com, features a clean interface for searching thousands of online vendors by product name...NexTag and Google include seller ratings, which are intended to lower the risk of buying from unknown vendors...NexTag has a little chart for each product showing how prices have dropped. (Prices hardly ever go up for electronics.)
New York Times, December 13, 2007
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NexTag Sells Stake to Private Equity
Providence Equity Partners Inc. has acquired a majority stake in comparison-shopping site NexTag Inc. for about $830 million.
The Wall Street Journal, June 9, 2007
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Which Shopping Site Is Best?
NexTag was our favorite, as it was easy to use and consistently delivered the lowest prices.
SmartMoney.com, April 26, 2006
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Waiting for Just the Right Moment to Take Out the Wallet
"NexTag has a number of useful features to help you track price cuts. It e-mails you when a product finally drops to the price you are willing to pay. The site also lists products that recently had price cuts, [and] displays price history charts."
The New York Times, February 11, 2006
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Comparison-shopping sites search for the best deals online. A stand-out: NexTag.com, whose price-history feature charts the highest, median, and lowest prices of products, so you know when you're getting a steal.
Real Simple magazine, November 2005 Issue
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6 | Holiday Bargain Shopping
Time Saved (peak season): Up to 4 hrs
Instead of store-hopping to score the best deal on that digital camera for Dad... click on NexTag.com. Even better, enter the highest amount that you'd be willing to spend and via their "price alert" feature, you'll be notified if the price drops in your desired range.
Women's Health, November/December 2005 Issue
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Deal Finders
NexTag (www.nextag.com) offers an interesting tool: a price history chart showing a product's cost over time so you can get an idea of whether you should wait to buy. And it includes a downloadable Internet Explorer toolbar to give you instant access to its search engine.
PC World Magazine, December 2005 Issue
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Attention Internet Shoppers:
The Web's Best Product-Comparison Sites
[An] innovative approach can be found on NexTag.com. The site's range of consumer information is a bit more extensive than other high-powered comparison sites. For instance, consumers can explore mortgage and financial services, automotive sales, and travel bargains. Clicking on the 'More' link in the index will call up an exhaustive listing of products from A to Z.
CIO Today, November 1, 2005
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Connecting With Teens About Money
Use the Internet for a lesson in thrift. A host of online price-comparison shopping sites, such as NexTag, are good ways to show kids how to compare prices, products and reviews. A recent search of "portable MP3 player" on NexTag, for instance, yielded more than 1,200 results, with prices ranging from $19 to $1,100 from a variety of merchants. Searching for the best deal is a good homework assignment for kids, says Rafael Ortiz, NexTag co-founder.
Dow Jones Newswires, July 21, 2005
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NexTag UK Grows Up Fast
In a little more than six months of operation, NexTag UK has attracted 1 million unique users to its online comparison-shopping service in Britain and become one of the top five shopping sites in that market.
DM News, April 18, 2005
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NexTag surviving, thriving
...Now, NexTag is growing and thriving. It has been profitable every quarter since 2001 and boasts 250 employees, up 130 from a year ago.
"They've built a nice business," said Scott Kessler, Internet analyst at Standard & Poor's. "I see no signs of them slowing down," agreed Chris Sherman, a writer at Search Engine Watch, who has studied the sector.
San Jose Mercury News, April 8, 2005
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"NexTag, which saw traffic jump 49 percent in January, is on track to generate more than $100 million in sales this year..."
CBS.MarketWatch.com, March 1, 2005
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The Best Web Shopping Sites
Mike Ferrara, "The Lazy Homeowner," touts NexTag.com as one of the best shopping sites on the Web, and showcases NexTag's exclusive Price History and Price Alert features.
KARE 11 (NBC) Today Show, February 25, 2005
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NexTag: Next step -- building a big company
"We focused on making comparison shopping for technology products work. Ten months later we were profitable," [Ojha] said. Once profitable, the firm was able to add comparison shopping in many categories other than technology, from automobiles and mortgages to education.
San Francisco Business Times, February 11, 2005
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Holiday Sales Show E-Commerce Alive and Well
"This holiday season marked a turning point for e-commerce in the sense that the broad base of consumers exhibited a significant increase in its recognition and acceptance of the Web as a viable alternative to traditional brick-and-mortar retail outlets," Purnendu Ojha, CEO and co-founder of NexTag, one of the fastest growing online comparison shopping sites, said.
E-Commerce Times, January 12, 2005
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Digital Discounts
"What a difference a year makes, when it comes to prices of electronics gadgets. As crowds gather this week in Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, a new survey by the comparison-shopping site NexTag.com shows that some of the hottest items featured at last year's show have dropped an average of 41% from the manufacturer's initial suggested retail price."
The Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2005
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Cool stuff for stockings; Digital tips for Santa's Helpers
"The best reviews may come from comparison shopping sites such as ... nextag.com."
U.S. News & World Report, December 11, 2004
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Easier Shopping Around -- Online
"They're called comparison-shopping sites, and what they do is exactly that -- they crawl through the Internet to find
the best product prices. Instead of going from one store's Web site to the next, shoppers can get all their information
in one place at the comparison site."
BusinessWeek Online, December 8, 2004
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"NexTag (www.nextag.com) is a shopping site that lets you search for services as well as products. Some other search
services do only products. This turned out to be a good service for ideas, as it suggested alternatives to what we were
looking for."
The Kansas City Star, December 7, 2004
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Filling holiday stockings with discounts, rebates
"First, if I have some idea of what I want to get, I start at a comparison site like ... Nextag.com..."
Chicago Tribune, November 27, 2004
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No lines online
NexTag pulls product information from about 3,000 merchants ... Our DVD player search brought back 1,459 matches.
[NexTag's] interface is clean and uncluttered. The site offers all the features that are becoming standard: user reviews
and an automatic price calculator that can tell you how much something will cost with tax and shipping. A price alert is
another nice feature. A "deals and coupons" section can save money, and the "recently viewed" link is handy.
Special feature: A price history graph for many products, so you can see if you're buying high or low.
San Jose Mercury News, November 22, 2004
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Travel search sites comb web for bargains
"Sites like ... online comparison shopping firm NexTag work like referral services,
combing the web for bargains and showing customers where to find them."
Reuters, October 6, 2004
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Lost in Traffic
"By focusing on sites that send valuable customers, some merchants can see huge
returns. For example, Mr.Golden says that for every $100 in sales that
Homeclick gets from comparison shopping sites, he spends less than $10 in
referral fees. At sites that perform particularly well for him such as NexTag,
of San Mateo, Calif., he pays less than $5 in referral fees for every $100 in
sales."
The Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2004
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Red Herring 100 Winners
"Every year, Red Herring's list of the technology industry's top 100 companies surprises the business world. This year is no different. The list once again sets the standard as the industry's definitive list of private technology companies impacting the market place, revealing where new fortunes are likely to be made."
Red Herring, May 13, 2004.
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Strong start to the season, E-tailers net more shoppers
San Francisco Chronicle, December 2, 2003
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NexTag Helps Small Merchants Ring in Holiday Season
Ecommerce Guides, December 2, 2003
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Online Search Engines Rev Up for Holidays
"...Which is why NexTag.com was particularly helpful last year when she bought a Palm Pilot as a Christmas present. She doubts she would have saved $40 on the gift, if not for NexTag's guidance."
Associated Press/Miami Herald, November 26, 2003
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NexTag venue offering more for shoppers
Oakland Tribune, May 19, 2003
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Web sites to help you find the best prices online
Newsweek.com, April 28, 2003
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NexTag Profitable for Sixth Straight Quarter
InternetNews.com, April 07, 2003
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Best of the Web
"It's easy to find merchants with the lowest priced products here."
Forbesbest.com, March 20, 2003
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"This shopping search engine has a clean, Google-like interface. But the results it returns blow Froogle away...Add it all up, and NexTag gave me a far better information for my online shopping search"
Business Week Online, Janurary 14, 2003
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Best of the Web
"...Using your zip code, NexTag calculates tax and shipping for each respective merchant."
Forbesbest.com, February 2000
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Reviving the Fine Art of Haggling, Online
"I used Nextag.com to find the best online prices for five other books I wanted..."
The New York Times on the Web, January 20, 2000
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Let the Cyber Buyer Be in Control
Business Week Online, November 8, 1999
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Private Profiles: Nextag
"[NexTag] takes the intellectually (and, it turns out, financially) satisfying innovations of eBay and Priceline.com and advances them to a new level of market-making beauty."
ComputerLetter, Technologic Partners, August 23, 1999
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Online Sellers Compete for Buyers At NexTag.com
"The privately held NexTag .com also announced today that Morgenthaler Ventures, a 30-year-old technology investment firm, pumped $4 million (US$) into the startup, completing its first round of financing."
E-Commerce Times, August 9, 1999
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People Power Is Waking Up Old Web Services
"...the new sites aren't simply product listing guides. Instead, they're true shopping services that help buyers find products and services and work with sellers to target the right customers, decide what to sell, and set pricing."
Business Week Online, August 9, 1999
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New Service Targets Priceline, C|Net"
"Essentially, NexTag aims to make itself valuable as a middleman, promoting virtual transactions made possible by new technologies."
C|Net, August 7, 1999
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