- AddALL
AddALL is a company based in
Arcadia, California . Itswebsite that offers an onlinebook search feature. The search combs records from more than 40 major sellers in ameta-search and combines the results so that they can be sorted by the user (by lowest price, title, or other ordering). By combining many sources (and also giving the option of searching for online coupons from the booksellers) AddALL attempts to offer users of its search information on finding the lowest price on a book, or help in finding hard-to-find or out-of-print.Founded in August of
1998 , AddALL is not owned by any bookseller which, AddALL claims, enables the site to give less biased results than bookseller-owned sites. The company was founded by Lily Chen and Chai-Hup Tan, two readers living inCalifornia . AddALL is a small company, still run by the founders and by a small group of people who they have hired on.Fact|date=May 2008Notable for its lack of
banner ad s, AddALL is also known for its intriguingquotation s which are offered on the search page while the user waits for results. Originally limited to quotations from the writings ofRabindranath Tagore , the scope of the quotations has since been enlarged and includes hundreds of quotations hand-picked by AddALL staff members.Fact|date=May 2008 Aside from the appearance of the site, another aspect which makes it notable is its extensive used book search. While many search engines exist for new books, fewer do for used books, and fewer still that are meta-searches of multiple sources.Fact|date=May 2008Since the success of its book search engine, AddALL has expanded by adding a
magazine search site, amusic (CD) search site, and a movie (VHS /DVD ) search site.External links
* [http://www.addall.com/ AddALL new book search]
* [http://used.addall.com/ AddALL used book search]
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