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by senecaso 1508 days ago
Oh, wow! Thanks for pointing that out. I'll take a look and try to get that cleaned up.

We don't have a lot of shops with electronics at the moment, so a query for "router" would be light anyway, but these particular results are not useful at all.

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Got it. What particular business types do you feel your search currently provides good results for?
We have almost anything you could look for, but for some reason, we don't have a good selection of computer parts and accessories. Its like all of the electronics shops decided not to use Shopify or something :)

You can find a rough breakdown of our product counts by category in our "Why Shopify is the best (only?) alternative to Amazon" post: https://blog.vendazzo.com/why-shopify-is-the-best-alternativ...

Of the 140k shops we currently have, the vast majority are clothing (shoes, shirts, jewelry, etc), home & garden (furniture, kitchen, cups, glasses, etc), and vehicle parts. The other categories still have a significant number of products in them, but we're light on the computer accessories, and much of what you find will be either older generation or enterprise. Its possible that the 140k shops that we selected just happen to not be electronics/computer shops, but until we're able to index the remaining 1.2M+ shops (that we're aware of) we won't know for sure.

One other thing to point out is that the filters (after you search), can be very helpful We're still not at a point where we can build out semantic search, so using the filters to select a category, colour, etc, can drastically improve the relevance of your results. Hope that helps!

BTW, I have made changes to remove the "Route Protection Package" from our index, and it should start disappearing over the next week or so. Thanks for pointing that out!