Bargain Geeker: Bargain hunter product search thingy

[andyt]

Hi all,

I've spent the last few days building a computer hardware product search tool thingy, because I got sick of spending ages trawling through Dabs, etc. for computer bits. It keeps track of prices and so can flag up bargains as they appear. You can also sign up for email alerts for the default search (bargains) or for a search of your choice.

Hopefully you'll find it useful, as I have. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I've given the site the slightly dubious name of http://www.geeker.co.uk/!

Cheers,

Andy

 

[Reefsmoka]

Thats pretty good dude, at the moment i use www.kelkoo.co.uk , but now i can use them both to find the best buy .

good job

 

[ChristopherP]

Pretty good!

I usually use...

http://www.priceguideuk.com

...but i shall ad that to my favs!

 

[andyt]

And as of just now, it has RSS feeds:

http://www.geeker.co.uk/rss/ for all bargains (products with a price drop > 20% in the past 7 days)

- or -

http://www.geeker.co.uk/rss/daily/ for daily bargains (products with a price drop > 20% in the past day)

Of course, you can customise the RSS feed as well. Say you were looking for an LCD monitor bargain: http://www.geeker.co.uk/rss/%:20+lcd+tft.

 

[Reefsmoka]

Now thats pretty darn good! good job man, you'll be saving people money from all over the UK .

Very handy site to have on my favourites .

 

[andyt]

Now thats pretty darn good! good job man, you'll be saving people money from all over the UK .

Very handy site to have on my favourites .

Glad you like it!

I've added a bookmarklet thingy on the FAQ page, so you can search the site easily from your links bar.

I've just updated all the products as well, so there are some new bargains in there. One that I'm particularly pleased with is the Belkin 802.11g USB adaptor for 25 quid, as I was planning to buy one for my girl.

Ultimately the product update will run nightly, but I'm still keeping it in check until I'm fully happy with it.

Andy

http://www.geeker.co.uk/

 

[Ian]

Looks good andy! Just out of interest, are you interfacing directly with these stores sites, or have you written a clever spidering program?

 

[andyt]

Looks good andy! Just out of interest, are you interfacing directly with these stores sites, or have you written a clever spidering program?

Tis a little bit of both!

 

[ChristopherP]

Interfacing? Spidering?

 

[gabriella]

Tell us more about this spidering and interfacing.......

Gabriella x

 

[Quadophile]

Ian,

We are all listening!

PS Gabriella, nice to see you around! We missed ya

 

[Ian]

Spidering is what google and other search engines do, they "crawl" the internet - visiting sites to add to a database.

That is about all I know, thats why I was so interested too

 

[andyt]

Spidering is what google and other search engines do, they "crawl" the internet - visiting sites to add to a database.

That is about all I know, thats why I was so interested too

Hi all,

Well, the site interfaces directly with certain retailer sites via product feeds - basically just web pages with the product data in a certain format. Other retailers are scanned Google-style, and the product data extracted. It's still early days, so if you do encounter any problems, do let me know.

Thanks!


Andy

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Hardware product search and bargain finder
http://www.geeker.co.uk/

 

[Ian]

How often does the database update Andy? Lots of the prices seem to have changed and old stock seems to still be in the database.

Its a pity as you seem to have a global price sort feature which I dont think exists anywhere else!

 

[till_i]

Hi all,

I've spent the last few days building a computer hardware product search tool thingy, because I got sick of spending ages trawling through Dabs, etc. for computer bits. It keeps track of prices and so can flag up bargains as they appear. You can also sign up for email alerts for the default search (bargains) or for a search of your choice.

Hopefully you'll find it useful, as I have. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I've given the site the slightly dubious name of http://www.geeker.co.uk/!

Cheers,

Andy

Excellent site.
I take chances with a consumer site that shows weekly deals for computer and electronic products www.cusbiz.com