This project will give you experience using shopping bots to search online for products, find product information, and find the best prices and vendors.

You have decided to purchase a new digital camera. Select a digital camera you might want to purchase, such as the Canon PowerShot S95 or the Olympus Stylus 7040. To purchase the camera as inexpensively as possible, try several of the shopping bot sites, which do the price comparisons for you. Visit My Simon

(www.mysimon.com), BizRate.com (www.bizrate.com), and Google Product Search. Compare these shopping sites in terms of their ease of use, number of offerings, speed in obtaining information, thoroughness of information offered about the product and seller, and price selection. Which site or sites would you use and why? Which camera would you select and why? How helpful were these sites for making your decision?