[SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-10 Thread Ali
Very good suggestions, Thanks Jeromy. On Jun 11, 3:47 pm, Jeromy Evans wrote: > On Jun 11, 2:14 pm, Ali wrote: > > > So based on above, as a start-up, my only viable option is to write a > > crawler for each individual online  BigW to get their price list ? > > Sure, if you want to be a "me-too

[SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-10 Thread Jeromy Evans
On Jun 11, 2:14 pm, Ali wrote: > So based on above, as a start-up, my only viable option is to write a > crawler for each individual online BigW to get their price list ? > Sure, if you want to be a "me-too" site. Lasso found a viable way to access the paper catalogue material. Getprice found

[SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-10 Thread Ali
So based on above, as a start-up, my only viable option is to write a crawler for each individual online shop. On Jun 11, 12:10 pm, Jason Galea wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Ali wrote: > > Thanks guys for your comments, actually Lasoo and shopbot are good > > examples, so you reck

[SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-10 Thread Ali
So based on above, as a start-up, my only viable option is to write a crawler for each individual online shop. On Jun 11, 12:10 pm, Jason Galea wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Ali wrote: > > Thanks guys for your comments, actually Lasoo and shopbot are good > > examples, so you reck

[SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-10 Thread Ali
So based on above, as a start-up, my only viable option is to write a crawler for each individual online shop. On Jun 11, 12:10 pm, Jason Galea wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Ali wrote: > > Thanks guys for your comments, actually Lasoo and shopbot are good > > examples, so you reck

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-10 Thread Jason Galea
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Ali wrote: > Thanks guys for your comments, actually Lasoo and shopbot are good > examples, so you reckon they are not using crawlers but rather getting > their price lists directly from the online dealers. Does anybody have > any experience in getting data direct

[SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-10 Thread Purcey
I used to work for Google in the states and was surprised to see the recent announcement bringing Froogle to Australia. At least Froogle was the original product name. Now known as Google Product Search, here's a link with more details: http://googlemerchantblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-shopp

[SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-10 Thread Ali
I doubt, That is too expensive and erroneous. On Jun 11, 9:00 am, Dylan Jay wrote: > I think lassoo is using mechanical turk or OCR to scan the actual   > catalogs for specials. > > --- > Dylan Jay > Technical Solutions Manager > PretaWeb: reducing duplication in the government web. > P: +612 808

[SiliconBeach] Re: An introduction from Melbourne

2011-06-10 Thread gord
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Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-10 Thread Dylan Jay
I think lassoo is using mechanical turk or OCR to scan the actual catalogs for specials. --- Dylan Jay Technical Solutions Manager PretaWeb: reducing duplication in the government web. P: +612 80819071 | M: +61421477460 | twitter.com/djay75 | linkedin.com/ in/djay75 On 10/06/2011, at 10:12 P

[SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-10 Thread Ali
Thanks guys for your comments, actually Lasoo and shopbot are good examples, so you reckon they are not using crawlers but rather getting their price lists directly from the online dealers. Does anybody have any experience in getting data directly from online retailers ? Like for instance, how shou