I wondered whether it is possible to compare prices on partial matches of product names, for example if a product name had more than 3 words whether if at least 3 matched, that they could be compared.
Usually the short names are similar and get compared, things like
DeLonghi 1895 Fridge Freezer
But some merchants add so much in the name column, like color, size etc, that they dont get compared, so I wondered if it would be possible to have that, whereby if name is more than 3 words then compare on 1st 3 words only, or something like that?
Not sure if it is feasible...
Yes thats true, the results do show that way and the way they display that way is fine for comparisons to be made.
Thanks
Hello Clare,
It's almost impossible to manage that programatically i'm afraid. The "big" price comparison sites employ armies of people to manage their product databases, matching up differing names from different merchant's as it's something only a human can really do.
The next best thing however, which Price Tapestry achieves by virtue of MySQL's full text indexing is that identical products should always be extremely close to each other in the search results, so your users will almost certainly pick up all versions of a product even if they are not displayed together.
Cheers,
David.