FreshBargains : All-in-one Deals Search Engine

Disclaimer: This is a paid review ordered by FreshBargains. Even though the company has paid for the review, our views are still our own and we are allowed to be negative if we want to! Besides, somebody has to pay the bills around here for the wild Make Use Of parties. Beer and girls don’t come cheap these days!

We have actually profiled FrehsBargains in MakeUseOf Directory about a week ago and were going to post it in the latest ‘Cool Websites’ roundup. But FreshBargains folks wanted to go with a full post instead, … we agreed.

So What is FreshBargains?

FreshbBargains is a deal search engine that lets you search for fresh bargain deals on 15 major deal websites (mostly tech related) including SlickDeals, FatWallet, TechBargains, Ben’s Bargains, GotApex, Deals2Buy, DealNews, XPBargains and several more.

Unlike other deal aggregators, FreshBargains has a clean and extremely simple interface, all you get is a search option. The idea of having one search to all major deal websites, makes it quite compelling. On top of that, there are some other useful features as well:

• ‘Latest Deals’ RSS Feed: Follow on newest deals (last 24 hours) from your feedreader.
• Free Alerts: Option to subscribe to email alerts for coupons or bargains deals on products you’re interested in, i.e. ‘macbook pro’, ‘ipod touch’, and so on. Once subscribed, every time there is a deal for that particular product you will be notified by email.
• Filter: Filter deals by deal source. Say you don’t want to include Fatwallet in your search results than simply uncheck it from the sources list.

To make things even easier, Freshbargains also offers a cross-platform Firefox Toolbar. If you’re a heavy deal hunter it’s definitely worth a look. Check it out below. If the toolbar isn’t really your thing there is also an option to add FB Search to your Firefox search bar. It doesn’t occupy any space and at the same time is always available.

That’s about it. Overall, I like the simplicity behind it. It’ simple, fast and has all the vital features you may be looking for. If there is one thing I would add to it, that would be free SMS alerts. Email alerts are great but having the option of getting alerts on your mobile would be even better.