MAB

Mab is an impressive software that allows users to search for products across all six Amazon-branded sites (com, ca, co.uk, fr, co.jp), providing results in a convenient interface that resembles a desktop program. Its focus is on streamlining the search process and limiting any distractions, showing only relevant information without any unnecessary images or text.

MAB can be likened to having the power of the world's most efficient bookstore clerk at your fingertips. It offers two different versions - an installed Mozilla Extension or a remote Zero Install version that works with Mozilla or Firefox browsers. Unfortunately, users of other browsers will only be able to view screenshots.

Key features of MAB include the ability to show product descriptions, reviews, images, tracks list, ISBN, sales rank, and all other useful information about the selected product; compare prices between different Amazon stores and display results on the same list; retrieve similar products; save results on the hard disk (installed version only); optimize for slow modem connections, and always provide accurate results by automatically skipping any duplicated products.

Users can also benefit from a direct link to Amazon for the selected product, search with Google for more information about the chosen item, add selected products to their shopping cart, export result lists in HTML or XML format to easily import them into Access or Excel, and use labels to categorize their results.

The software requires Firefox 1.5 or later, but once installed, users can access an array of features that simplify the shopping process and make comparison shopping effortless.