New broadband price comparison service launched by founder of Kelkoo UK

Apologies if someone has already posted this with an obscure subject
line.

"New broadband price comparison service launched by founder of Kelkoo
UK"

http://tinyurl.com/5qwvo

then

http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/




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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:21:01 +0000, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>
>http://tinyurl.com/5qwvo

ie http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/r...hp?relid=QAAQQ a
publicity piece

>then
>
>http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/

hmm, doesn't offer me any Demon or Zen services (to name but two).

If I say I only want to spend <£20 I am only offerred low speed
services despite specifying 512k standard speed . If I hack the url of
the results page to
http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broa...rice=2&speed=3
I get the 512k < £20 options. Otherwise the URL is
http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broa...rice=2&speed=2

It offers me UKOnline 8000 which is not available from my exchange.

3/10 but it does say Beta so maybe 5/10 :-)

Phil
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Phil Thompson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:21:01 +0000, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> >http://tinyurl.com/5qwvo
>
> ie http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/r...hp?relid=QAAQQ a
> publicity piece
>
> >then
> >
> >http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/
>
> hmm, doesn't offer me any Demon or Zen services (to name but two).
>
> If I say I only want to spend <£20 I am only offerred low speed
> services despite specifying 512k standard speed . If I hack the url of
> the results page to
> http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broa...bitmask=1&pric
> e=2&speed=3
> I get the 512k < £20 options. Otherwise the URL is
> http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/broa...bitmask=1&pric
> e=2&speed=2
>
> It offers me UKOnline 8000 which is not available from my exchange.
>
> 3/10 but it does say Beta so maybe 5/10 :-)

And it can find no results at all for my postcode.

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<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Apologies if someone has already posted this with an obscure subject
> line.
>
> "New broadband price comparison service launched by founder of Kelkoo
> UK"
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5qwvo
>
> then
>
> http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/

A nice new site that has potential

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:21:01 +0000, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Apologies if someone has already posted this with an obscure subject
>line.
>
>"New broadband price comparison service launched by founder of Kelkoo
>UK"
>
>http://tinyurl.com/5qwvo
>
>then
>
>http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/
>
>

Good idea, but the site needs a lot of work.

It doesn't cover a very large list of ISPs (Plusnet are not in them,
neither are AAISP), and results returned using the "genie" are
different to those returned using the standard search.

It also, when using the standard search, came up with one cable
service for me, in an area without cable.

On 24 Nov 2004, in uk.telecom.broadband, Phil Thompson wrote:

>If I say I only want to spend <£20 I am only offerred low speed
>services despite specifying 512k standard speed .

>If I hack the url of the results page to

I didn't get as far as having a hack at the URLs when I tried the
USwitch.com/co.uk (?) site the other day. Seemed only to have a
tiny subset, but driven on commission, no wonder. Peter M.