The Price is Right: 8 Hot Shopping Search Engines in India

India’s e-commerce market is vast and dynamic, and it’s not even anywhere near the saturation point of e-shopping sectors in western markets. But everyone needs a bit of help finding the right prices online, and Google is not much help with that. To fill the gap, online shopping search engines are a big business in India, and it’s still a boom area for new startups to enter and specialize.

In no particular order, here are eight hot shopping search engines for India’s netizens:

1. Junglee

Amazon’s first venture into India was not with its own e-commerce business but with this very wide-ranging e-shopping search engine. Launched in February 2012, it might well be India’s most comprehensive with a claimed 18 million products indexed across hundreds of sites. Amazon’s own Marketplace for India only launched in June this year with a limited product line-up.

2. PriceDekho

Another site with a vast repertoire is PriceDekho. Along with all the product listings, it also has useful features like price alerts that can email you if a product that interests you is spotted at a lower price. In addition, Pricedekho has joined India’s coupon craze, and has spawned the separate CarDekho and BikeDekho sites for people who need a new set of wheels.

3. MySmartPrice

After initially starting with a focus on gadgets, MySmartPrice is now more comprehensive with new sections devoted to finding clothing and books at all the top Indian e-stores. Plus, it now offers coupons as well.

4. Comparethebazaar

Comparethebazaar has pretty much all you could need to search for on India’s e-commerce sites, but sets itself slightly apart with an emphasis on searching for online travel products.

5. Shoppingwish

6. Pricecheck India

7. ThisYaThat

8. PriceBaba