The power feature I am most looking for, and which I think this site could implement well, is cross-category search. If I want, say, ECG leads, manufacturers and vendors will list them in, variously, Industrial & Scientific, Health & Household, Electronics, Computers & Accessories, Professional Medical Supplies, or even the pervasive Tools & Home Improvement category.<p>Many of these sub-categories have useful filters that aren't available in the general product list, but if I want to use them, I must open tabs for each category.<p>If this site could do a union on all the categories, offering sub-filters where available, filtering in the products that meet those filters and categories, out the products that have different categories, and in the products that have no categorization at all for that filter, that would be very useful.<p>On the other hand, if Amazon would just do a better job of curating the metadata on all these products, that would be great too. Maybe it takes a full time effort for a few people to maintain the compatibility lists for all the phone cases on Amazon. But that has to be more efficient than having thousands of under-informed consumers try to repeat that work over and over again...
Would be swell if sellers' book descriptions could also be searched; I've found some gems that way: <a href="https://tinyapps.org/blog/nix/201112010700_amazon_wget.html" rel="nofollow">https://tinyapps.org/blog/nix/201112010700_amazon_wget.html</a>
I always thought it would be nice to sort by stars x reviewers or stars x log(reviews) -- something like that. Something that better balances rating and popularity. One of the most annoying things in amazon search by rating is scrolling through screens and screens of products with one user giving a product 5 stars.
A few things:<p>- The interface is overwhelming. While I understand that you aim to surface power, I think you're not targeting a specific power well enough to cater to a user's needs. For example, if you aim to help a user find deals, you should develop an interface that targets that super power.<p>- Related to ^, I'm wondering why a user would ever need some of these features... like why would I want to search by hidden keywords?<p>- Re: branding. I feel like you haphazardly went for a 5-letter dot com, when you could have done something more memorable like amazonhunter.com
Personally I like the interface and think dumbing it down would be a mistake. I would recommend adding a "minimum reviews" filter, as I sometimes sort by avg rating but get things with 2 or 3 reviews that are probably fake anyway.
I agree that the interface is way overwhelming. It's very hard to see what the text boxes are for because the labels are positioned so funny. I was also not expecting it to open a new window to Amazon. I thought the results would stay on your site (like on CCC). Also, how do you pronounce the name of the site anyways?<p>From a functionality standpoint, I think this works great. I wish amazon would let me search by all these features. This saves a ton of time and headache with searching amazon.<p>One final thought. It would be great if it supported smile.amazon.com. I support the "Youth Competitive Programming Circle" with all my purchases. It would be nice if all the links went to smile.amazon.com instead of straight amazon.com.<p>Overall I like it. Keep at it.
I am the author of jeviz.com. Currently it is only for US locale. Immediate benefits are you have more options for search sorts. For example most choose a department and select "Most review" sort option to sort by number of reviews which is not visible in Amazon.com site. When you login you can save your search parameters and synch your mobile, desktop search parameters. There are about 50,000 categories in Amazon you can do full text search for categories. There is advanced book search more accessible than Amazon advanced book search. Please tell me what are the features you want more.
Is it possible to search for books that have been blurbed by certain authors? For example, if I'm interested in a list of books that Donald Knuth, or heaven forbid Gary Shteyngart, has blurbed and recommended, how would I go about doing that? Often the product descriptions will have blurbs or reviews from various sources listed on the Amazon page to induce individuals to read the book or atleast permit it to capture their attention.
Say I want to search a shirt of specific brands only e.g. "Calvin Klein" and "Versace". If I misspell the name, Amazon won't complain, rather it'll show the incorrect brand name in the left pane. Would it be easy to add auto-suggest for brands so that I get the name right.
LOVE this! Thank you for sharing.<p>I've wondered, is there a way to combine book format searches? Books have Paperback AND Audio CD, for example?
Author of jeviz.com here. All started with a question on Quora <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-features-would-you-like-to-see-in-Amazon-Product-Search" rel="nofollow">https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-features-would-you-like-t...</a>
Nice job :)<p>Sad though, once one considers what Amazon has begun as: a search engine...<p>And yes, somehow and for some reason most ecommerce sites are not good at filtering their data on more criteria in categories...