| >but in the end, it still wouldn't have mattered if I couldn't figure out how to acquire users In EU there are many price comparison engines with millions or billions of products. I don't know how popular they are. Some monetize trough ads, some have partnership with stores and you can buy directly from the search results. I generally search first on the local Amazon equivalent, if I don't like what I see, I search on a smaller store. If I still can't find or dislike the products or prices I search Google. If I am still not contended with the results, I will go search on comparison engines. And I also have a browser extension called Pricy who polls the comparison engines, so once I land in a product page I know which store has the better price and what was the price history through last year. Probably many people have similar patterns. I expect people in US to search Amazon first, if it's not a very niche product they are after. I think you can have a better monetization proposal, if instead of just search you build a sales platform, so people can directly buy after searching, without hoping to various websites. |
It doesn't take much imagination to predict which products show up as "best" or "cheapest".
And the fairer ones have to keep playing cat and mouse with shops lowering pricing when they detect a scraper coming by. Or employ tricks to make their shipping seem free, lowering their overall price on the comparison platform.