Best Clothing Site: yahoo.com

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The challenge of shopping for clothes on most comparison sites is narrowing down the choices. Yahoo!Shopping gives you various ways to edit and streamline the search.

Selection/Price
Searches for kids’ pajamas and a green cashmere sweater yielded no shortage of items to choose from. With the pajamas, for example, more than 800 options came up. But once you decide on a brand and a style, there is often only one vendor selling it, so you can’t compare prices. Sara’s Prints boys’ pajamas from Campmor were on sale for $20 in a closeout deal.

Shopping Experience

Click on the “Clothing” tab to browse through various subcategories, like “Outerwear and Shoes,” or choose “Shop by Brand” or “Bargains and Sales.” You can also search by price range or by online store.

Best CD and DVD Site: shopping.com

Shopping.com
By tapping into a pool of about 60 online vendors for music and movies, this site ensures availability and good prices. A clean layout and ease of use are other pluses.

Selection/Price
Most music and movie choices are offered by several online stores (sometimes more than a dozen), with both new and used options. A search for new products found CDs available for as much as $6 below list price. Shopping for DVDs, we found Six Feet Under—The Complete Second Season (list price: $100) for $68 and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (list price: $20) for $14.

Shopping Experience

On the music or movies home page, you can search by genre, check out new and upcoming releases, or type in a specific title.

The search-results page displays store names, consumer store ratings, format and availability information, and price (including tax and shipping, based on your ZIP code). You can sort results by price, store name, or consumer ratings.

Features consumer reviews from Epinions.com, a popular consumer-rating site.