[bane]

> One of my biggest hurdles initially was matching products across 100+ websites. Even though you think a product has a unique name, everyone puts their own twist on it. Most can be handled with regexes, but I had to manually map many of these (I used AI for some of it, but had to manually verify all of it)

In the U.S. at least, big retailers will have product suppliers build slightly different SKUs for them to make price comparisons tricky. Costco is somewhat notorious for this where almost everything electronics (and many other products) sold in their stores is a custom SKU -- often with slightly product configuration.

[throwaway7ahgb]

Costco does this for sure, but Costco also creates their own products. For instance there are some variations of a package set that can only be bought at Costco, so you aren't getting the exact same box and items as anywhere else.

[bob_theslob646]

Would that still matter if you just compare by description?