More Online Comparisons for US Customers as Shopperhive.com Launches

LONDON, August 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

With more shopping features and a sleek user journey Shopperhive is listing more products and stores for user browsing, shopping and sharing. Combine this with our current economic times and more internet friendly devices, this is great news for online shoppers.

Shopperhive.com launches today in the USA following their launch earlier this year in the UK with Shopperhive.co.uk. Their UK site has seen a steady and large increase in the amount of shops wanting to be listed as well as a steady increase in the number of visitors to their site.

Shopperhive constantly strives to introduce new features making online shopping easier for the consumer. Hear are just some of the advantages and features when using the Shopperhive comparison engine:

• Faster browsing and search: Shopperhive has an average page speed of 1.5 seconds per load.
• Rich Snipets: Shopperhive is using semantic information helping drive the evolution of the web by enabling users to find, share and combine information more easily from their website.
• Instant search: Available in the search box for both products and reviews. Thanks to HTML5, results and suggestions appear as you type creating faster product searches.
• Comprehensive choice: Shopperhive covers all retail sectors so you are bound to find what you are looking for and the product scope is is constantly expanding with more and more products and sectors being added.
• Product variations: When comparing prices, different product variations are shown on the same page for that product unlike on the majority of other comparison sites where one has to click between the pages to view product variations.
• Social reviews: User generated reviews are synced in and attached to products which users can accress to research a product further and use to help them make well informed purchase decisions based on the opnions of real people without biased reviews in the mix. 

Recently on the 8th of Aug, comScore Reports released its Q2 2011 U.S. retail e-commerce sales estimates, which showed that online retail spending reached $37.5 billion for the quarter, up 14 percent versus a year ago. This growth rate represented the seventh consecutive quarter of positive year-on-year growth and third consecutive quarter of double-digit growth rates. Source - PR Newswire News Releases

Based on this news it seems like the only way is up for online shopping in the US with very encouraging year-on-year growth. It's great to see sites like Shopperhive.com constantly innovating themsleves to improve the consumer journey online thereby helping online shoppers save money and shop easier online. We look forward to their future releases and their presence in the US.

About

Website: http://www.shopperhive.com
Founded: December 2010
US Launch: 15th August 2011
Description:
Shopperhive.com is a social comparison shopping engine that lists millions of products and hundreds of retailers & service providers helping you shop online and compare prices to find the best deals out there.

As well as price comparison, we provide you with product video reviews, price alerts, voucher codes (when available), a watch function (for additional reviews and more), monthly newsletters (for those that sign up), product wishlists and secure user accounts where you can view all your shopping activity with us in your shopping news feed. Our users are also able to write their own reviews for products and 'saved wishlists' can be easily shared via email and social networks with your family and friends. Shopperhive also has a well optimised mobile site where 'remote wishlists' can also be used forwarding a link to your pc or laptop for later use.

Contacts
Shopperhive Ltd
Sean Smerdon
Director of Sales & Marketing
[email protected]

SOURCE Shopperhive Ltd