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| Nextag, Inc.
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| legal form | Inc. |
| founding | 1999 |
| Seat | San Mateo , California , USA |
| Branch | Product and price comparison |
| Website | www.nextag.com |
Nextag was a price comparison portal for products, travel, financial services, and education. The company's headquarters were in San Mateo, California, USA; further branches were in London , Tokyo and Gurgaon ( India ). Nextag was founded in 1999, originally as a website where buyers and sellers could negotiate prices for computer and electronics products. The business model in its last form with a focus on price comparison had existed since 2000. In May 2007, Nextag sold a two-thirds stake for $ 830 million to the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners, LLC.
Nextag, with 30 million visitors per month (July 2011), was named several times as one of the largest US American search providers in Nielsen's "Top 10 Search Providers (US)" list with a search engine share of 0.3%. However, this proportion has decreased significantly since the beginning of 2012.
The company operated other price comparison portals in Germany, Australia, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Spain and the USA.
The American website went offline on December 28, 2018, the German website is currently still available.
Takeover of guenstiger.de
The website guenstiger.de is a German price comparison portal and is operated by guenstiger.de GmbH from Hamburg with around 30 employees (as of July 2013). The company was founded in 1999 by Philipp Hartmann and Torsten Schnoor. In addition to guenstiger.de , the Preissuchmaschine.de platform has also been part of the corporate group since 2003. In 2006 testeo.de was launched, a consumer portal for test reports and opinions. This offer was discontinued in spring 2014. Guenstiger.de GmbH has been part of the US group NexTag since summer 2011 . As part of the merger of Nextags with the guenstiger.de group , the European headquarters of the US price comparison was relocated from London to Hamburg in March 2012 . In the course of the takeover, around 50 of the previous 80 employees were laid off. In addition to the price comparison at guenstiger.de, Nextag Europe's offer for Germany, England, France, Spain and Italy is also managed from the Hanseatic city.
Individual evidence
- ↑ "NexTag, Inc." . Company factsheet. Hoover's . Retrieved May 15, 2008.
- ^ Marshall, Matt. "Surviving, thriving. Ojha's Determination Helps Rescue NexTag from Dot-Com Crash “ ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . San Jose Mercury News . April 8, 2005. Retrieved May 19, 2008
- ↑ Delaney, Kevin J. "NexTag Sells Stake to Private Equity" . The Wall Street Journal . June 9, 2007. Retrieved May 14, 2008.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 2011
- ↑ "Top 10 Search Providers for March 2008 Ranked by Searches (US)" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Nielsen Online, MegaView Search (link published by ZDNet) . April 30, 2008. Retrieved May 19, 2008
- ↑ "Pageviews from Nextag.com" ( Alexa ). Retrieved January 7, 2013
- ↑ Ina Steiner: What Happened to Comparison Shopping Engine NexTag? In: EcommerceBytes. January 7, 2019, accessed May 20, 2020 (American English).
