My first thought: here's another Google offering they won't promote, and will discontinue in a year or two. Why bother?<p>It reminds me of the "compare CD rates" page they had - I tried to find it just now, but it looks like they killed it off.<p>But I did find this - Google Compare credit cards:<p><a href="https://www.google.com/compare/creditcard/qs#p=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/compare/creditcard/qs#p=0</a>
I entered my name and number into an insurance finder once. I got calls for years after from every insurance company imaginable. The junk mail still comes. Never again am I giving away my personal info in a finder that passes it on.
Not sure what input I provided wrong, or if its just the services Google is partnering with, but all the quotes provided are 2-3 times more than what I pay now.
I tried it. Why did they have to send me an email containing my quotes, versus just displaying the quotes on a results page? That seems particularly un-Googley. I hope my email address is not shared with any third parties.
Currently the auto-insurance industry is moving towards usage-based-insurance - which basically measures exactly how you drive your car and estimates your premiums based on that. It have shown to reduce prices by around 15%(and maybe there's more potential because it's new).<p>There are now enough insurance providers that support that model.And a large fractions of consumers does show interest, but they still have some potential issues preventing usage: fear that it might increase premiums, no way to compare this to regular insurance, and the need to install something to get all the data(preferably before you sign to insurance).<p>Google compare,coupled with all the data google potentially already have from our phones, can solve all those - and could even be more accurate using more data.<p>And long term, whoever controls this data controls the insurance market - because if you already buy from google compare - why would you ever install apps or but telematics hardware that collect driving data from someone else ?<p>So i think Google will be aggressive about that.