In the World Wide Web, your bedroom is your email address, your house is your website, and search engines are your buses, taxis, trains, and airplanes. To expand the analogy, Internet Shopping sites are your mall buildings. There are mega malls consists of departments stores and retail shops, there are ordinary malls offering less of what is in the mega malls, and there are small, independent shops offering their brand of specialties.
In relation to Internet Shopping Sites, Shopping search engines are your mall transport facility, and in a way, the megamall in itself. With Google acting as the all-powerful and all-knowing God of the Internet, it is expected that it has a representation in terms of shopping search engines: Froogle. In Froogle.com , you just have to type anything, as in anything, that you want to buy and it will direct you to the right shopping malls where that product or service can be obtained.
In the search results page, you will find photos of the product you’ve search, their description, their prices, and the link to the particular Internet shopping site. When you’re done choosing, you just have to enter your credit card number, and the products will be delivered right in your door step or as what you preferred. Similar to Froogle are other shopping sites that painfully compete with this powerful giant like Amazon.com, Bizrate.com, Shopzilla.com, and Overstock.com. These search shopping engines coordinate with thousand different online businesses to form a conglomeration of stores, and work on a contract in a sort of sales commission and referral set up.