RE: FN-FORUM: How does moneysupermarket and other similar sites work?

date posted 14th June 2007 12:49

Hi Duncan,

I'm currently involved with one of my travel clients in their project with
TravelSuperMarket (same people as MoneySuperMarket). Every night they FTP a
flat file up to TSM with prices and dates and then TSM also run a web
service I developed to get the brochure details. They combine these every
night for use by their site the next day. Oh, and by the way, they ain't
cheap!

Hope this helps.

Craig


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Good Morning,

Right, I thought I would ask if anyone new how moneysupermarket and
other sites actually work?
In essence they are a comparison tool for a specific service (or
product) and presents the customer with an impartial listing of all
the providers and their best price.
Does it do this by fetching the data off each of the providers, or do
they have to regularly update moneysupermarket with their info?

I would be interested to understand the system behind it, if anyone
can shed any light on that?

Thanks,

Duncan

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