DataFeedfile.co.uk has created a full featured price comparison shopping engine that took 5 experienced programmers 1.5 years to create, not to mention the hundreds of human labor hours spent identifying and categorizing products. DataFeedfile.co.uk has a total of approximately 37 million products as of today (4/27/2009). About 6 million have been identified and normalized with UPC / ISBN, have proper descriptions and product pictures. In order for an affiliate to re-create the DFF tool and provide a similar shopping functionality, the affiliate would need at least 6 high-end servers, 2 years of development time and hundreds of hours organizing product information, not to mention the daily routine updates.
- Barry Walls