Two New Sites for Bargain Hunters

A post at ShoeMoney led me to a new "deal site" called Dealighted. Dealighted pulls all the deals from Fatwallet, Slickdeals, Anandtech , and GottaDeal, and puts them all together on one site.

The deals are submitted by real people, and you can choose to see the most popular, or all the deals that have been submitted. And there's also a price comparison function that's very handy. But I have to say that I agree with Jeremy's criticism; it would be nice if users could vote on the deals, or set preferences to filter out the deals they see (I don't want or need to see a "deal" for a free sample of the latest tampon technology, especially if they'll only ship to a US mailing address).

And the other new site I discovered (thanks to ProBargainHunter) is CouponLooker, a search engine for coupon or promo codes. CouponLooker collects coupon code info from a bunch of different coupon sites and lets you find them easily through their search engine.

These sorts of aggregator sites could come in real handy for those of us who like a bit of online bargain hunting, since it could mean we need to visit a smaller number of sites to get the same information.

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Google Custom Search Engines

I was working on a new blog template the other day, and decided I wanted to add in a search box for searching the blog. I didn't want to use a Technorati search box like the one I've got on this template, so I started looking around. Turns out Google's got just the thing I was looking for. It's called Google Custom Search Engine, and so far it looks really cool.

With Custom Search Engine, you can do all sorts of things. I'm using it to search just the domain for the blog, but you can include as many different domains as you want. Or exclude certain domains. You can let other people contribute to your engine. You can choose to give extra weight to certain keywords and phrases in the results of your Custom Search Engine. You can pick "refinements" that help searchers narrow their searches. And I don't even know what else.

And there's one more really cool thing you can do with your Custom Search Engine. You can link it to your Adsense account so that you make money with it!