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Post by Zarathu » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 11:19 PM UTC

cninja wrote: post #35

Zarathu wrote: post #16

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Yeah, this is one of the problems that we've been dealing with for a while, and we're still not sure how to really go about eliminating product accessories when the user is simply looking for that product. Unfortunately, this comes up whenever you search websites like Craigslist or eBay, so without getting really creative, there's not a whole lot we can do to completely get rid of this problem. I'm glad we were able…

My camera test search query ended up getting good results after modifying it to "powershot -battery -cable -case -protector -charger -adapter" Would it work to attach a "accessory word blacklist" to the end of every search query that does not explicitly have one of the accessory words in it?

Post by troels » Thu, Aug 13, 2009, 8:14 AM UTC

thomaspaine wrote: post #24

troels wrote: post #13

A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script continue. Script: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.js:... --- Why are the results loaded through javascript? can't they just be rendered server side? I like the name.

It looks like the results are being loaded with independent ajax requests to each product database. If this was just all done server side, you'd have to wait until all of these requests finished loading instead of having them appear on the page incrementally. Most people don't want to wait 10 seconds for a page to load.

Post by iterationx » Thu, Aug 13, 2009, 8:59 PM UTC