BeatThatQuote.com

BeatThatQuote.com was a British price comparison site specialising in personal finance products. The site was disabled in 2013 after being acquired by Google.

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 provided the services for other comparison websites such as ArgosCompare.co.uk[8] and other financial comparison websites.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Lady luck smiles again on driver of fast growth online match-maker". Financial Times. 23 June 2006. Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
  2. ↑ "Sunday Times Rich List: John Paleomylites". The Sunday Times. London. 27 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
  3. 1 2 Evans, Tara (13 June 2008). "Can you trust comparison sites?: BeatthatQuote". This is Money. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
  4. ↑ Goldsmith, Julian (29 January 2008). "Comparison site gets smart to beat that competition". Silicon.com. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
  5. ↑ Davidson, Darren (14 February 2008). "Facebook loses out to BeatThatQuote.com as fastest growing website". Brand Republic. Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-18.
  6. ↑ "Beat that! Google acquires the UK's BeatThatQuote.com for £37.7m". Techcrunch Europe. 2011-07-13.
  7. ↑ "Google demotes BeatThatQuote one day after buying it". The Register. 8 March 2011. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
  8. ↑ "Argos Credit & Insurance - Argos Compare".

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