Info.com partners with Become.com for Best of the Web Product Research and Comparison Shopping

CHICAGO & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Info.com, a search platform for broad web and vertical search engines, today announced a partnership with Become.com, the only online shopping website that allows Info.com’s millions of users to research products comprehensively with full featured comparison shopping and pricing through their powerful shopping service.

“Info.com is dedicated to providing their users with the Web’s best sources of information and this is a strategic fit with our mission of providing consumers with comprehensive shopping information to both choose and buy the right products at the best prices”

Info.com users can now access more than four billion pages of relevant product research to help them during the shopping process. Become.com’s state of the art AIR ™ shopping search technology scours the web to deliver independent buying guides and product reviews, consumer feedback and other useful resources to aid consumer purchase decisions. Become.com’s comparison shopping service offers more than 25 million products from over 5000 name brand merchants to give consumers a wide array of price choices for the items they want to buy.

“We are delighted to integrate Become.com’s robust product research and comparison shopping service into Info.com's offerings because so many people use the Web to both research and buy products.” said Stephen Scarr, Info.com CEO. “We want to help consumers make better buying decisions and I believe that Become’s highly relevant product search technology is the best on the market.”

Info.com’s users have an easy to use search and comparison price service which also provides tax and shipping details -- by zip code -- so consumers get full pricing disclosure when choosing a merchant. Other innovative shopping features include “search by color” allowing browsing by exact shade for clothing, home and garden and other items as well as an array of specific feature and price filters to help select products that meet a shopper’s requirements.

Users can immediately access Info.com's new shopping service by visiting www.shopping.info.com or www.info.com and clicking on the "Shopping” tab.

“Info.com is dedicated to providing their users with the Web’s best sources of information and this is a strategic fit with our mission of providing consumers with comprehensive shopping information to both choose and buy the right products at the best prices,” said Michael Yang, CEO and Founder of Become.com. “This is a great new service for Info.com users and a terrific way to help us expand the number of people who benefit from our consumer-focused shopping service."

About Info.com

Info.com (www.info.com) is a search platform that pulls together the best of breed search tools. From a single search query, Info.com provides results from the leading search engines and pay-per-click directories. Info.com is also partnered with other search providers to include comparison shopping and product reviews, a broad selection of News, Health, Pictures, eBay, Jobs, White and Yellow Pages, Tickets, Flights, Hotels, Classifieds, Jobs, Weather, Maps and Directions.

About Become.com

Become.com is a powerful search engine and comparison shopping service. Founded by industry pioneers Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun, creators of MySimon, Become.com helps people make better buying decisions and purchases online. Become.com searches over four billion web pages and uses its patent-pending AIR™ (Affinity Index Ranking) search technology to provide the Internet’s most useful product reviews and guides, and then makes it easy to find and buy products from brand name retailers at the best prices. With more than 25 million products from 5000 merchants, Become.com provides the Web’s most robust and easy to use combination of relevant product research and comparison shopping. Please visit www.become.com.