BeatThatQuote.com

BeatThatQuote.com is a British price comparison site specialising in personal finance products.

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History

BeatThatQuote.com was launched by John Paleomylites[1] in February 2005 based in London's Kentish Town.,[2] by 2006 it was awarded the 'young company of the year' by the CBI/Real Business Growing Business Awards.[3] and in the financial year 2006 to 2007 the company posted revenues of £7.8 million.[4]

BeatThatQuote.com was ranked by Nielsen Online as the fastest growing UK website in 2007,[5] received around 2.5 million unique visitors per month in June 2008.[3] and was acquired by Google in March 2011 for £37.7 million.[6] BeatThatQuote.com was penalised by Google for search engine spamming the day after it acquired it.[7]

Affiliations

As well as operating their own website, BeatThatQuote.com also provide the services for other comparison websites such as MSN Compare[8][9] and ArgosCompare.co.uk[10] financial comparison websites.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Lady luck smiles again on driver of fast growth online match-maker". Financial Times. 23 June 2006. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/171f0100-02d0-11db-9231-0000779e2340.html. Retrieved 2008-09-18. 
  2. ^ "Sunday Times Rich List: John Paleomylites". The Sunday Times (London). 27 April 2008. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/specials/rich_list/article3806144.ece. Retrieved 2008-09-18. 
  3. ^ a b Evans, Tara (13 June 2008). "Can you trust comparison sites?: BeatthatQuote". This is Money. http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/consumer/savingideas/article.html?in_article_id=442964&in_page_id=512&position=moretopstories. Retrieved 2008-09-18. 
  4. ^ Goldsmith, Julian (29 January 2008). "Comparison site gets smart to beat that competition". Silicon.com. http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39169841,00.htm?r=3. Retrieved 2008-09-18. 
  5. ^ Davidson, Darren (14 February 2008). "Facebook loses out to BeatThatQuote.com as fastest growing website". Brand Republic. http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/784257/Facebook-loses-BeatThatQuotecom-fastest-growing-website/. Retrieved 2008-09-18. 
  6. ^ "Beat that! Google acquires the UK’s BeatThatQuote.com for £37.7m". Techcrunch Europe. 2011-07-13. http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/03/07/beat-that-google-acquires-the-uks-beatthatquote-com-for-37-7m/. 
  7. ^ "Google demotes BeatThatQuote one day after buying it". The Register. 8 March 2011. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/08/google_rate_that_quote_search/. Retrieved 1 December 2011. 
  8. ^ BeatThatQuote and MSN launch comparison site
  9. ^ MSN Money UK Compare
  10. ^ We work in partnership with Beatthatquote.com...

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