Shopping search on big retailers feels increasingly hostile. You type something specific and get a wall of “similar” or outright unrelated items, mixed with ads that look like regular results. Sorting by price usually makes relevance even worse. It feels like the results are optimized for sellers and advertisers, not buyers.
I’m building 2zuz, a shopping search engine that puts the user first. Results are never promoted because someone paid more. Only results that are 100% relevant to your query should be shown, sorted by price.
Right now it searches across a few of the big online retailers, with more planned. I also think there’s a lot of room to improve how filtering and refinement works, and I’ll be iterating on that, but the main goal is simple: if you ask for something specific, you should not need to wade through anything else.
I’d especially love feedback on:
- How’s the precision/recall for the queries you care about?
- Where does it fail compared to the others?
- Which online retailers would you most want included next?
- Any “power-user” features you wish shopping sites had?
- Any other rough edges: bugs, UI, confusing behavior?
Thanks in advance for trying it out.
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I’m building 2zuz, a shopping search engine that puts the user first. Results are never promoted because someone paid more. Only results that are 100% relevant to your query should be shown, sorted by price.
Right now it searches across a few of the big online retailers, with more planned. I also think there’s a lot of room to improve how filtering and refinement works, and I’ll be iterating on that, but the main goal is simple: if you ask for something specific, you should not need to wade through anything else.
I’d especially love feedback on:
- How’s the precision/recall for the queries you care about?
- Where does it fail compared to the others?
- Which online retailers would you most want included next?
- Any “power-user” features you wish shopping sites had?
- Any other rough edges: bugs, UI, confusing behavior?
Thanks in advance for trying it out.