Pricesearcher began as a small, self-funded project by Samuel Dean[2] in 2011, with the aim of indexing all products available to buy online to give shoppers a clear picture.

In 2015, they recruited a freelance DevOps engineer, Vlassios Rizopoulos,[6] to help speed up the product indexing process.

[3] In September 2018, Pricesearcher was selected to join the London Stock Exchange's capital-raising programme.

[7] In October 2018, former Amazon UK Head of Pricing Weldon W. Whitener joined Pricesearcher as Chief Analytics officer.

[8] In January 2019, Pricesearcher becomes a Google CSS Partner (Comparison Shopping Services)[9] In March 2019, Pi Datametrics and Pricesearcher Launched a Joint product for digital retailers "The first ever combining of organic search data and online product price data in a single report, PricePoint allows retailers to highlight where the winning pricing opportunities exist online, alongside organic visibility.

[3] The search engine's rapid growth[3] has been attributed to its enabling technology: a retailer can upload their product feed in any format, without the need for further development.

[2] Like Google's web crawler, GoogleBot,[15] PriceBot identifies online retailers and crawls their websites looking for products that are being sold.

Future revenue will come from an Adwords-type advertising model; the most traditional advertising model for search engines[2] Data collected by Pricesearcher was presented at the Brighton SEO Conference in a presentation: "What we have learnt from indexing over half a billion products".