i was also unimpressed, until i searched for a very spesific product name and not just a lamp or keyboard or other _type_ of thing

Posted by: on December 15, 2002 05:13 PM

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i was still unimpressed though, just not AS unimpressed

Posted by: on December 15, 2002 05:13 PM

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I wasn't impressed by the results I got by browsing through categories, but I'm hoping both that and the searching will improve as more items are added and the structure's refined.

And I found this by accident, so it can't be all bad.

Posted by: Matt Round on December 15, 2002 05:37 PM

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It feels like "Google Does Amazon", but not very well.

I tried to find the lowest price XBox console as an experiment.
I searched for XBox and got 0.25 million results. I saw that I was getting all the games and accessories as well as the consoles. I then tries to "Narrow Results By Category" but that was no help, as there was not a "Games Console" category (that IA stuff isn't easy!). I then decided to set a minimum price of $100, which should get rid of the games and cables. I typed '100' into the "from price" box and clicked the 'go' button. There are three different go buttons and they all do different things. Froogle decided to interpret my minimum price of $100 as a range of '$0 to $100' rather than '>= $100' as I had intended. I got the hint and entered a minimum of $100 and a maximum of $200. This gave me 121 results which consisted mainly of XBox consoles. Some of the deals were console only and some were consoles with games included. As there was no way of sorting the results by price it was very difficult to narrow down my choice.

I was now at a loss at what to do next. Or was I ?

I spotted the text ads to the right of the results and decided to give them a quick go. My second choice gave me this which presented a selection of 9 UK retailers with reviews, prices and shipping information. I could even sort them by price !

Google are good at the "Type/Click/Browse" web search, but they have got a lot of work to do with this catrgorisation/product browsing stuff.

I know this is a beta, but is there really any excuse for not being able to search by price?

I am disappointed with this effort and it doesn't excite me one little bit. However, as a side effect of my searching I did find this gaming chair which I found interesting.

Posted by: Mac on December 16, 2002 08:18 AM

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