Recent content by Thomas J. Vosper

  1. Thomas J. Vosper

    Intro to a New Search Engine

    Yes. We'll only look to monetize part of the site as it is vital for us to maintain a core free offer to our retailers if we are truly able to show consumers the complete overview of prices. The Goji Berry example is an interesting one as this is indeed a model of headphone sold at PC world. We...
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    Intro to a New Search Engine

    Nothing. No cost to sign up and no CPA, CPC, Commission, RevShare, etc. for the traffic or resulting sales. We are investor backed, and this removes any commercial constraint. Don't get me wrong, we'll need to find a way to make money in the future, but we're confident we can do this in a way...
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    Intro to a New Search Engine

    Hello to another Thomas J. !! Our data is provided by the retailer a number of ways. Most commonly via URL - which we visit and update from 3x per day. Via FTP (push or pull) - once a day or via free Magento, Shopify or Woo plugins - in real time
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    Intro to a New Search Engine

    Thanks Rob. We've had such an influx of sellers/retailers that we are undertaking a big piece of work with machine learning and AI to exactly address showing the right link in the right place. Great to have you on board.
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    Intro to a New Search Engine

    Great to hear this feedback all. Thx
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    Advice for e-commerce website

    Traffic is the biggest challenge for your own site. The commissions to the marketplaces are your cost of acquisition. They take care of the users. If you're going to create your own site you need to get as many people to it as possible, not just for sales, but so that you can understand the...
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    Intro to a New Search Engine

    The never-ending task of relevance for the user..... GOJI Berries 2.0 Headphones :(
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    Intro to a New Search Engine

    Hi @Raw Rob Thanks for reviewing us already. One of the big reasons for reaching out to the SME community is the opportunity to fill in selection gaps in the long tail - such as your search example highlights. Our search algorithm is desperately trying to surface a result to the user. In...
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    Intro to a New Search Engine

    Thanks for checking us out already @fisicx ! I appreciate the immediate comparison to Google and we welcome feedback. Please bear with us as we are less than 12 months old and still in BETA. With retailers plugging into our search engine we're able to continually improve relevance until such...
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    Intro to a New Search Engine

    Hi, I'm Thomas, Head of Retail at Pricesearcher. I've joined this forum to engage with the UK's SME's and help put their e-commerce stores in front of as many engaged users as possible. At Pricesearcher we are building a consumer-facing vertical search engine that captures all the world's...