It’s Official! The new Comparison Shopping Engine is now up and running at Where2LookOnline.com. Our price comparison toolbar and all of our shopping widgets have been updated to incorporate the new comparison shopping engine. Unfortunately, we have decided to terminate our Top Searches widget and thus, we have also removed it from our price comparison toolbar.

Our regular users may have already noticed, that along with the shopping engine upgrade a few other changes where made. Most of the changes were minimal and were comprised of some slight style changes to the look of the page header because of the new search bar. The main site navigation menu was also added to the footer to provide even easier site navigation for our visitors.

Probably the most major changes where the layout of the Where2LookOnline Home Page and the addition of our new Category Map. The Category Map is a new dynamic page that displays links to every searchable category within the new comparison shopping engine. The links are grouped into 24 main categories which include several sub-categories. The sub-category lists for each main category are interactive and can be lengthen or shortened with a simple click at the visitors convenience. We also added a Category Map tab to the main site navigation menu located in the header and footer of each page, providing users an easy way to visit the Category Map from any page of Where2LookOnline.com.

We hope you like the new changes and would love to hear any feedback or suggestions that you, our users, may have. As always, please feel free to post your comments here on the blog or send us a message through our contact form.

Happy Shopping!

We regret to inform our user base that due to unforeseen yet necessary changes being made behind the scenes, the Comparison Shopping Engine that powers Where2LookOnline.com will be temporarily unavailable while we make some necessary changes.

We assure you that we are working diligently to solve the unforeseen problems that have arisen with our Comparison Shopping Engine and this will only be a temporary disruption of our Comparison Shopping services. Unfortunately, this problem is affecting several of our shopping tools as well and they will also be unavailable for the time being until the problem is fixed and changes are completed.

Our Price Comparison Toolbar will still be available, although certain features that rely on our Comparison Shopping Engine may be removed or unavailable until the changes are completed. As well, our Hot Product Shopper Widget and our Video Game Deals Widget will continue to function to near capacity with only the search function being affected. Unfortunately, our Comparison Shopper Widget will be completely inoperable until the changes are complete.

We will, however, continue to post deals, coupons and sales alerts here on our blog as well as on Twitter @Where2Look to ensure that we continue to provide our users with the proper tools to find the best prices online during the absence of our comparison shopping service.

As always, the people here at Where2LookOnline.com are striving to bring you the highest quality comparison shopping tools online, so it may take some time to implement the changes. We currently do not have a time table for completion, but we will be providing updates here on our blog as we go. We wholeheartedly regret any inconvenience this may cause any of our site visitors and/or users of our comparison shopping tools. It is our hope that these issues will be resolved as quickly as possible.

We thank you for your patience.

We would like to formally announce that there have been some recent changes to the Where2LookOnline Price Comparison Toolbar Privacy Policy. The changes were minimal, but they were made to stay in line with the policies of our toolbar software provider Conduit Ltd. and the high standards associated with their TRUSTe certification for being a safe and trusted download provider. If you are a user of our Price Comparison Toolbar, we assure you that your toolbar will not be effected in any way and will continue to provide you all of the features that you have come to know and love. If for some reason you have yet to install it, you can download The Where2LookOnline Price Comparison Toolbar here.

Furthermore, we have also updated our Price Comparison Toolbar Help Page and added detailed Firefox Installation Instructions for our Firefox users. As always, if you have any questions or feedback about The Where2LookOnline Price Comparison Toolbar, please feel free to send us a message through our toolbar contact form or post your comment below.

Since Where2LookOnline is now providing updates via Twitter, it only made sense for us to include our recent tweets on our Price Comparison Toolbar.

Therefore, today we added a Twitter widget to our toolbar, from which our users can directly access everything posted to Twitter by Where2LookOnline. The new functionality allows our toolbar users to stay up to date with everything we’re doing, wherever they are on the web by simply clicking on the Twitter icon in their toolbar.

Current users of our price comparison toolbar will not need to do anything in order to take advantage of this new feature. Their toolbars will be automatically updated. If you are not yet using our price comparison toolbar and would like to learn more about the tools we offer that can make your Internet browsing better, simply visit our Price Comparison Toolbar Download page for more information and a list of features. Our toolbar is available for both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. It’s a FREE download that’s easy to install and takes only seconds. It does NOT contain any spyware, it’s 100% virus FREE, does NOT hijack your searches, and NO personal information is required.

So, go ahead and try it out. Then, don’t be shy and let us know what you think by posting a comment here or by dropping us a quick email through our toolbar contact form. We’d love to hear from you.