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Yahoo! Hacks
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Yahoo! Hacks

by Paul Bausch
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Shop Intelligently

Use Yahoo! Shopping to find and compare products across the Web.

Shopping is more of an art than a science. Finding the right item at the right price involves a bit of intuition and luck. But there’s no reason you can’t bring a bit of science into your shopping habits to help you find, compare, and buy. Imagine you’re interested in purchasing a portable music player, but you’re not sure which to buy or where to buy it. You could physically drive to your local electronics stores and browse, but you’d miss out on the benefit of choices beyond what they have in stock and you wouldn’t have instant access to information about each of the products and their differences. You could browse to your favorite online stores, but you’d only find prices at each individual outlet.

Just as Yahoo! brings together thousands of news sources at Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com) and millions of web pages at Yahoo! Search (http://search.yahoo.com), Yahoo! Shopping (http://shopping.yahoo.com) indexes merchants across the Web to find prices for thousands of products. Instead of typing portable music player into Yahoo! Search and sifting through hundreds of results to find online stores, you can search or browse Yahoo! Shopping and see prices at merchants that Yahoo! has approved. In addition to finding and comparing prices, you can add items from multiple merchants to a wish list and compare product features side by side.

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