Slightly awry search engine?
January 23rd 2008 09:11
Checked out a site called savebuckets.co.uk today. Its claim is that it can search over a million products for the best prices. Within each category it certainly brings up a number of items, and the range extends from books to ipods, from laptops to bicycles, so certainly there’s plenty of choice.
However, it has a note right down the bottom of the left hand side where it says: If you spot a product that's missing an image, price, in the wrong category, or you have found it cheaper elsewhere, let us know about it and we'll get on the case!
I suspect their search engine isn’t quite picking up some of the clues. I brought up the books category, which was fine, as there were dozens of sections to it, and you could check the books in an area you preferred. However, included amongst these was the seemingly unambiguous Music and Musical Films category. The following five titles came up:
Western by Morricone
The soundtrack (on CD) to some film called Black Book
The Complete Book of Indian Cooking - I kid you not!
And two of the Harry Potter books on audio cassettes.
There’s a category called Women which turns out to have only one item in it: the
Ladies Fffrozen Boxed Stoked girls fragrance & 'Soul Surfer' book gift set, and that’s listed as not available. Fffrozen?
However, when I put in a specific title, it seemed to work well. The Book of General Ignorance, introduction by Stephen Fry, (which I've just taken back to the library today) brought up three versions of the book at three different prices.
Perhaps some of the categorizing hasn’t quite got its act together yet!
However, it has a note right down the bottom of the left hand side where it says: If you spot a product that's missing an image, price, in the wrong category, or you have found it cheaper elsewhere, let us know about it and we'll get on the case!
I suspect their search engine isn’t quite picking up some of the clues. I brought up the books category, which was fine, as there were dozens of sections to it, and you could check the books in an area you preferred. However, included amongst these was the seemingly unambiguous Music and Musical Films category. The following five titles came up:
Western by Morricone
The soundtrack (on CD) to some film called Black Book
The Complete Book of Indian Cooking - I kid you not!
And two of the Harry Potter books on audio cassettes.
There’s a category called Women which turns out to have only one item in it: the
Ladies Fffrozen Boxed Stoked girls fragrance & 'Soul Surfer' book gift set, and that’s listed as not available. Fffrozen?
However, when I put in a specific title, it seemed to work well. The Book of General Ignorance, introduction by Stephen Fry, (which I've just taken back to the library today) brought up three versions of the book at three different prices.
Perhaps some of the categorizing hasn’t quite got its act together yet!
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