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Re: Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids

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Post by LeifCarrotson »

The power feature I am most looking for, and which I think this site could implement well, is cross-category search. If I want, say, ECG leads, manufacturers and vendors will list them in, variously, Industrial & Scientific, Health & Household, Electronics, Computers & Accessories, Professional Medical Supplies, or even the pervasive Tools & Home Improvement category.

Many of these sub-categories have useful filters that aren't available in the general product list, but if I want to use them, I must open tabs for each category.

If this site could do a union on all the categories, offering sub-filters where available, filtering in the products that meet those filters and categories, out the products that have different categories, and in the products that have no categorization at all for that filter, that would be very useful.

On the other hand, if Amazon would just do a better job of curating the metadata on all these products, that would be great too. Maybe it takes a full time effort for a few people to maintain the compatibility lists for all the phone cases on Amazon. But that has to be more efficient than having thousands of under-informed consumers try to repeat that work over and over again...

Re: Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids

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Post by giarc »

ronp2016 wrote: post #39
LeifCarrotson wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> blurbed What does this mean? Is it a typo for blogged, a new social network used by Knuth and Shteyngart, or a word I've never heard of?

I think he means the quotes praising the book that appear typically on the back cover of a physical book. https://susanleighnoble.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/writing-an-...

I think they may refer to the actual Amazon page, found under "Editorial Reviews". For example, from a random book I found.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385542364/ref=s9_qpp_gw_d...

Editorial reviews by Oprah, someone from the NYT, People, NPR etc.

Re: Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids

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Post by dbgllm »

ceyhunkazel wrote: post #2

I am the author of jeviz.com. Currently it is only for US locale. Immediate benefits are you have more options for search sorts. For example most choose a department and select "Most review" sort option to sort by number of reviews which is not visible in Amazon.com site. When you login you can save your search parameters and synch your mobile, desktop search parameters. There are about 50,000 categories in Amazon yo…

I really like the interface.

I played with resizing the window of my Chrome browser to see how it would react, and the UI is resizing really well. However I did it quite a few times, from phone size to desktop size, and after a bunch of times the sidebar (with categories)'s scrolling is getting more and more sluggish. Just so you know.

Re: Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids

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Post by ceyhunkazel »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #41

The power feature I am most looking for, and which I think this site could implement well, is cross-category search. If I want, say, ECG leads, manufacturers and vendors will list them in, variously, Industrial & Scientific, Health & Household, Electronics, Computers & Accessories, Professional Medical Supplies, or even the pervasive Tools & Home Improvement category. Many of these sub-categories have useful filters…

It is really hard to do with, even API requires department for extra features. What about dividing screen with iframes and search for several(at most 4) categories.
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