Comments on: Pathfinder Shopping, reloaded

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By: George Moschovitis

George Moschovitis — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:02:35 +0000

Utterly brilliant! Congrats!

By: Sugar

Sugar — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:15:19 +0000

@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!

By: gterez

gterez — Mon, 14 May 2007 09:25:31 +0000

Another EXCELLENT website by the Phaistos Networks team that seems entirely out of place here in Greece…

A couple of suggestions:
- 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!)

By: cosmix

cosmix — Sat, 12 May 2007 08:29:20 +0000

I was joking (of course)

By: Sugar

Sugar — Sat, 12 May 2007 06:17:44 +0000

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!

By: cosmix

cosmix — Sat, 12 May 2007 00:07:41 +0000

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.

By: Sugar

Sugar — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:41:51 +0000

@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.

By: Tsevdos John

Tsevdos John — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:32:58 +0000

At last a proper greek e-shop!!! It was about time!!!

By: cosmix

cosmix — Fri, 11 May 2007 10:36:57 +0000

Congratulations. It’s really good to see more good aggregators for the Hellenic market. If only they were matched by decent online shops…

What do you mean, I wasn?t supposed to overwrite this?

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.