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Re: Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine

#42

I love your approach; you found a problem and developed a solution for it. And then you got the courage to share with the larger technical community. Good on you. There's obviously some rough edges (multiple duplicate products, issues with product links linking to empty pages, and no results for broad terms), but don't let that stop you. I'm certain they can all be fixed. Keep going! At the least, you'll come out of…

Thank you, that means a lot. It has definitely been a whirlwind of emotions since posting on HN but glad I did. It's definitely an MVP so going to work fast to improve it.

Re: Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine

#43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? They're cataloguing public data. Do you think the same of search engines - which are equally scraping the web? If it's not useful to you, nobody is forcing you to use this product.

You really didn't think about this. Search engine crawlers are specifically designed to ignore sites that have the right setups. In other words: they try to be good citizens of the web. Data scrapers on the other hand are known to steal others IP and use it to jump start their own services. When you do that you're using all the bandwidth of the site while devaluing everything they've built. They will have invested si…

hm in this case, he is driving business to these websites. Quite the opposite from OpenAI and scrapers you are talking about, no?

Re: Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine

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Agora also doesn't return red shoes for the search query "red shoes". Seems like you haven't fully solved the problem yet :) From a technical perspective, crawling 25M products is impressive but the search itself doesn't provide much value to me. I already use large e-commerce sites (amazon, wallmart, ...) and targeted ones (Nordstrom, SSENSE, ...). Sure I may not be searching through all the shopify, wix stores but…

Definitely have not solved the problem yet! The search algorithm prioritizes the brand called "Red Wing Shoe" so still figuring out ways to show real 'red shoes'. Have been thinking about passing the images through a detection tool and tag them to enhance the search experience. Re: Value Proposition. Absolutely, I think focusing on the SMB-angle and 'local shopping' will help direct users better. I'll definitely take…

Best of luck on your marriage

Re: Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine

#46

wow! Nice work. I've been trying to build an index of shopify stores. Did you search for all domains pointing to shopify's name servers?

I don't think that would work as many people also use Cloudflare etc.

You may try using BuiltWith which is a paid service:

https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Shopify

Re: Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine

#47

Do you plan to add filters: price etc? I was about to 'reviews' as well in the above list but decided not to as they are not always trustworthy. Now AI is so advanced, that it can be used to detect fake reviews and ignore them from sampling.

Yes. There's a very basic price range filter right now. Working on adding a ships to, location, and a few others. Open to any ideas that would help in the shopping experience.

There are 'reviews' now and made the decision to only let authenticated users leave users so they are more trustworthy (i.e. thinking is that adding more friction will lead to higher quality reviews).

Re: Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine

#50
Awesome! It would be good to listen to the enter key when typing in a search query. Your privacy and terms links point to what appears to be the saas code framework you used (just a guess). I was looking for your contact/email so I can ask you some questions.
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