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Why don't sites just start publishing a dump of their site that crawlers could pull instead? I realize that won't work for dynamic content, but surely a lot of these "small" sites …

You site looks good, and your results are fantastic! Job well done. I did hit a server error though, so obviously still some issues to work out, but overall, really well done. Movi…

I didnt know about the link to checkout. That's a slightly nicer user experience for sure. Still, its confusing for users who want to do more shopping at the same time. I had users…

we did have channels on various sites, yes. However, its difficult to maintain a steady stream of content there for people to consume. Not only that, but you have the same discover…

We were intentionally limiting the number of products and shops we were indexing due to opex. We needed to keep it low enough to provide ourselves with enough runway to keep things…

I doubt it would be that easy, but, ya, using some form of automation is necessary. We devised a few rudimentary way to filter out the chaff, and it did quite well to remove the ga…

Many shops do double list, this is true. However, I don't think its a solved problem. There are many people who do not want to shop on Amazon for their own reasons. There are also …

Our business model revolved around referrals, so lack of users directly translated to lack of revenue. While its true that even if we had millions of users but none of them were bu…

we didn't, no, but we spent a lot of time sifting through our catalog, and there was a _tremendous_ amount of crap in there. We manually curated and purged shops that were obviousl…

Ya, curation is sadly required in the Shopify ecosystem. There are millions of shops, there is a tonne of garbage. Its also difficult (but not impossible) to properly classify item…

https://www.searchagora.com/about Seems he is indexing nearly 650k shops.

We had no capital, so advertising or solutions that basically involved "throwing money at the problem" were off the table for us. We spent time posting in forums helping people fin…

Yes, this has been available for a few years now. Initially, they only indexed a very small number of shops, so it was less useful. Based on a few queries, it seems like the are st…

I hope you have better luck than I did! A few years ago, my partner and I built vendazzo.com (now defunct). It was an e-commerce search engine on products listed on Shopify shops (…

I was thinking more along the lines of a public dialog, where a user could post a comment like "This is a great idea! However, if you could make it do X and Y, it would be even bet…

ya, a way to submit feedback/comments might be a good idea. I just submitted an idea, and immediately was wondering how I would be able to engage with the people who voted (or didn…

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…

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 b…

Right now, we gather location data from the pages themselves. Some shops (not many) include an address. The process is very error-prone though, so our accuracy in this area is like…

Yep, this is pretty much it. Amazon has the advantage that they are able to force their sellers to specify metadata about their products in very specific ways, which allows them to…

back up!

Yep, it just went down. We've been using spot instances, and those are hard to come by around Black Friday. I'll look into it.

We were surprised by this as well, but since one didn't exist, we started to create one! https://vendazzo.com/ We still have a long ways to go, but you can search for items and fil…

Yes, we were surprised as well, but since they didn't seem interested in building it, we started building one! ;) https://vendazzo.com/

Thanks for the input! Ya, we are already working on getting featured items onto the main page to make it more obvious that its a shopping site and that you can search for the thing…