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by ajkates 6798 days ago
Deal-scouring isn't a new idea by any means. Nonetheless, I've been playing around with it, and I'm very much impressed with the speed and ease of use of the service. Well done.

One suggestion though that may or may not be helpful at this point. Perhaps when a user searches, you can have a "short list" that lists the most popular products in that search, so that the search can be narrowed to a single product.

For instance, when I type "bluetooth headset," a short list of headset models could come up on top of the results. When I click on one, it limits it to, say, H700.

Also, I searched for "Playstation 3." I was looking for the console, but got one console result and a bunch of games. Perhaps categories like "Playstation 3 Console," "Playstation 3 Games," "Playstation 3 Accessories," etc.

The former would be much easier to do than the latter I'd imagine, but both types would be helpful.

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Right now, you'll find that our results for relatively specific searches (e.g. LG 42" Plasma - http://www.bountii.com/search.php?item=lg+42%22+plasma&s...) are really good.

However, like you mentioned, a broader search- "Playstation 3", yields more than consoles. We're working hard to improve the quality of our results for broad searches like this. For now, we decided to make the price filter very accessible to people. When you get back more than consoles for your "Playstation 3" search, we hope you'll narrow your results to those "> $200" to skip over the games and accessories.

The price filter isn't always good enough though. For instance, searching for "laser printer" brings up printers and cartridges, but on the low end of the price scale the prices are similar. Could you improve the search so that adding "-cartridge" eliminates cartridge results?

Really nice product search engine though. I got great results for the Nokia N800.