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Semantics3 (YC W13) Is A Massive Consumer Products Database To Rule Them All

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Re: Semantics3 (YC W13) Is A Massive Consumer Products Database To Rule Them All

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Seems complementary to a service like EDITD (www.editd.com). I'm curious how Semantics3 determines which ecommerce sites to crawl. I remember reading somewhere about how even Amazon only stocks something like 2% of all ecommerce products.

Re: Semantics3 (YC W13) Is A Massive Consumer Products Database To Rule Them All

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is this US centric? or applicable to EU audiences as well?

We are currently only US centric. We hope to cover the other regions (starting off with the EU zone) in the next few months. Drop me a mail at varun [at] semantics3.com - I will keep you posted!

Re: Semantics3 (YC W13) Is A Massive Consumer Products Database To Rule Them All

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This is an incredible achievement, would love to hear more about the backstory and the "curation" process.

By "curation", it's machine "curation" of course :) All the product data is categorized and disambiguated with the rest. At this point we spit out a confidence interval, and only those that pass a high threshold are inserted into our master database. The rest are discarded - because they were missing some attribute or we didn't know where to fit it in our category tree, etc..

In terms of the backstory - We started off as a data marketplace (like infochimps) where folks could buy and sell data sets. But we soon realized most of the demand was in the ecommerce vertical and we decided to focus purely on that segment. Based on customer feedback, we scrapped the downloadable data sets model and switched to the api model for the delivery of data.

Re: Semantics3 (YC W13) Is A Massive Consumer Products Database To Rule Them All

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All payments are handled through PayPal? These guys are really putting all of their eggs into one basket with that move.

Why so you say so? PayPal allows payments through their account and payments with credit cards without an account too.
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