Update - March 26, 2006: Dulance Dead?
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From my phone interview with Sergei Burkov, Fouder and CEO of Dulance…

What is Dulance? How are you different than the other comparison shopping engines?
Dulance is a 2nd generation comparison shopping engine. The difference between us and 1st generation comparison engines is our breadth of coverage. 1st generation engines cover 5,000 – 50,000 merchants, and only those merchants that have established relationships through sending xml feeds. There’s a long tail which they are missing. There are many rare products which are not covered. So we went after the long tail, the rare products. Each rare product itself is negligible, but combined, the number of rare products is more than the number of popular products like digital cameras or electronics. Our goal is to cover everything and anything online.

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