Funny Fail Pictures

This happy couple just went shopping and provide us with an excellent example of a shopping fail picture (via Fail Blog). Shopping is great but personally I prefer to shop online using the Internet. The fact that you can buy whatever you want without leaving the comfort of your home is great. Not to mention that by doing this, you avoid becoming someone else's fail picture example while carrying (or dragging) the groceries home. :)

If you are an "online shopper" like me and you do a lot of searches using Google when you want to buy something online, you would appreciate a tool that could save you time when searching for something. I know I would. Well, that tool exists and its called ShopWiki.

ShopWiki is basically a search engine for online shopping. You can use it to find the best online stores and to search for any product that you may want to buy online just like you would do with Yahoo, MSN, or any "normal" search engine, but in this case you get special benefits offered by ShopWiki: On the results page you get not only the links to the websites selling the product, but also... Pictures of the product! Number of available online stores! Prices! Product details!

How to shop online with Shop Wiki

ShopWiki offers over two hundred million products available in an equally amazing number of online stores (searchers can find stores like Amazon, PixMania, eBay, Best Buy, Buy.com, Royal Discount, and many others) so the probability that you'll find whatever you're looking for is high. I suggest you spend some time browsing through their catalog to get an idea of the huge amount of stuff you can buy online with the help of the website (follow this link for an example of a Furniture products page).

It covers all imaginable categories in online shopping such as home & garden, health & beauty, office, kids, babies stuff, pets, toys, video games, electronics (like picture frames), collectibles, music, books, movies, food, wines, and it even has a wedding category with dresses, jewelry and accessories for brides, and lots of other stuff.

If you don't have time to browse through all that, you  can just enter a search term to see the list of results and details with available stores and prices. You can enter a specific term like Digital LCD Picture Frame to get relevant results. You can also narrow search results by price range, brand name and color.

Unlike other shopping sites, this one doesn't really sell the products, it just links to their respective online stores, so you don't have to worry about it trying to sell you something just to get an affiliate commission or something like that. It lists all online stores that it finds (it crawls the web just like any other search engine).

ShopWiki is so far my favorite website in its concept, but... nobody is perfect: The one thing I didn't like about the website was the exaggerated amount of keyword stuffing in the bottom of some of the search result pages, disguised as "related searches" (see the Home Furnishing and Decor page for an example), I think it would be better off with only 10 or 20 related terms instead of 200. Sometimes less is more.