Internet companies Google and AOL have invested in the seed round of a company, set up only six months ago, which analyses the prices paid on the internet.

The corporate venturing units of US-based search engine Google and US-based internet services provider AOL have joined several unnamed strategic investors in backing the seed round for US-based price tracker Shopobot.

Google Ventures and AOL Ventures have backed Shopobot after it was founded six months ago, although the amount they invested was undisclosed. The company was formed in January this year when the founders were accepted to the AngelPad accelerator programme, a start-up incubator set up by a group of ex-Google…