Pathfinder Shopping, reloaded
After many months of development, countless bugs and tweaks, numerous litres of liquid caffeine and several precious times (”What do you mean, I wasn’t supposed to overwrite this?”), it is here:
The NEW Pathfinder Shopping!
Pathfinder Shopping, the new version. This is the new baby of Pathfinder, made with much effort (and love) from all of our team. For the oblivious, it is an e-shop aggregator with advanced features, having more than 200 greek stores and over 650.000 products, making it easily the leading greek product search engine.
It will get polished. More features are coming. More shops will be added. Usability will be improved.
After all, it’s just a beta.
If you’re greek and you’re looking for something to buy online, you’re more than welcome to try the new Pathfinder Shopping and drop us a line or two with your suggestions / remarks.
*phew*
pathfinder, shopping, pathfinder shopping
P.S. Image editing done by Picturesque, was just playing with it.
May 11th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Well done everybody! Great work
Pathfinder Shopping rox
May 11th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Nice work!
Keep it clean.
May 11th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Congratulations. It’s really good to see more good aggregators for the Hellenic market. If only they were matched by decent online shops…
Huh? Isn’t Pathfinder using SVN?
Some Comments:
1. I suppose that your AJAX suggestion list works with recent searches (some sort of cacheing you do there?).
2. Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/system/Web/Pathfinder/V10/Shopping/pages/search.inc on line 173
appears occasionally when trying to sort by price -> ascending after a search
3. Categorisation doesn’t really work well. For example, there seem to be products in several ’similar’ categories (e.g. consumer electronics, computer peripherals). I guess this is an automated process, however given the small number of shops (let’s not kid ourselves here, this is Hellas) and the relative scarceness of some products, this makes filtering by category a pointless exercise, if products are not properly mapped to categories.
That’s all for now. Good luck.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
At last a proper greek e-shop!!! It was about time!!!
May 11th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
@cosmix: Psssh, who needs SVN?
1. No, there is no caching involved to the autocomplete feature.
2. Fixed! Thanks for letting us know!
3. This is a matter of great discussion. Unfortunately the categories provided in Pathfinder Shopping are not really up to us, but up to our clients - the e-shops. We do provide a mapping mechanism though that redirects searches to relevant categories…
Thanks all for your feedback. Much appreciated by the Pathfinder team.
May 12th, 2007 at 2:07 am
Hmm. SVN is needed by anyone serious about not overwriting stuff and keeping track of changes aka. versioning.
No, seriously, don’t you use any sort of versioning software?over there?
No caching huh? Weird. I’d swear that when I tried it yesterday the list was empty, but some minutes later when I retried the same search I got a suggestion.
Regarding the categories, I guess it’s one thing you can do. You’re very welcome about the feedback; glad I could help.
May 12th, 2007 at 8:17 am
My dear cosmix, I well know what SVN is, thanks for the quick lecture though)
Don’t ask me, I’m just a humble web designer!
May 12th, 2007 at 10:29 am
I was joking (of course)
May 14th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Another EXCELLENT website by the Phaistos Networks team that seems entirely out of place here in Greece…
A couple of suggestions:
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- GREAT way of displaying search operations and successively applied filters in the breadcrumbs path! ?owever, it should wrap to the next line when it gets long, keeping the entire path visible at all times.
- ? small typo: use ????????? instead of ?????????.
- When browsing categories directly, NOT coming from a search operation, the default sorting should probably be by price (asc), sort by relevance is out of context here.
- Maybe you should add more EU-based stores that ship to Greece ( to keep the competition going
Keep up the good work! (and get those guys at ??? to hand over in.gr to Phaistos Networks!)
May 15th, 2007 at 1:15 am
@gterez:
1. We’ll consider this as an option, since there are cases that the breadcumbs grows considerably, indeed
2. Fixed
3. This is an idea to ponder on, thanks for letting us know.
4. Who knows, only future will show
Thanks for all the feedback and the kind words!
May 17th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Utterly brilliant! Congrats!
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