On the heels of Bazaarvoice raising an $8.8 million series B, competitor PowerReviews has just raised $15 million, adding to the $6.25 million they raised in late 2005. The round was led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners along with current investors Menlo Ventures and Draper Richards.
Since its launch in April 2007, the number of reviews and products offered on Buzzilions.com has tripled. Today, the site offers more than 400,000 reviews on 125,000 products from over 1,000 ecommerce sites. PowerReviews says that the traffic driven through Buzillions also converts at nearly twice the rate of other shopping portals. In April we compared PowerReviews to Bazaarvoice and other competitors - PowerRevies main advantage is easy integration, and a free version of the product.
User generated reviews help sales at ecommerce sites, but few startups have the technical and product resources to build this internally. PowerReviews, Bazaarvoice and others have stepped in to fill this need. Aggregate Knowledge and Loomia address different needs in the ecommerce space - helping these companies merchandise and recommend products to users based on behavior.
nicholas - what is web sites for company you list in story - i do not favor crunchbase scam - so list normal web site so i go to it
i dont know why uncov or techdumpster has not posted about crunchbase and the crap.
please post normal link even tho heather want you to post crunchbase it bad.
“Power Reviews” needs to make it easier for sites to sign up and start using the their web-page-embeddable services. I don’t know if things are better now, but six months ago the only way to start using their service was to contact a salesperson.
moham: nice trolling; If this is a real issue for you, then write a direct email, start a petition, or a blog. If you truly don’t understand why internal network links are used by blog networks, perhaps you shouldn’t be here. I do not care for the practice myself, but I believe they are trying to run a business (and this is how it works). It is not a “scam” unless you are partially retarded, which your english skills indicate might be the reality.
Yawn ,,, I hate talking petty cash.
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W O W !. Again, more steroid cash. Barry Bonds can point fingers in a different direction. and LAUGH.
I am absolutely astounded. Surely to the heavens there are better deals out there for investors than more 2.0 bullshit sites. And the beat goes on. Gonna be an interesting thing this coming meltdown.
How is this different from epinions.com?
Yelp is catalyzing the ‘Reviews’ niche…