Gregory's ServerData quality on e-commerce sites is just extremely awful. Sorting by "lowest to highest" price is basically always useless, because you get dozens of pages of only vaguely related accessories and parts first before you get to the first actual product that belongs into the category. Seems to be true across the web.
I would consider preferentially buying from an e-commerce site that has good data quality.
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@Cassandra I would call it "the seller tries to spam their product into as many categories as possible" and the customer is none the wiser. Would be nice if an e-commerce "crowd-sourced" products category improvements and that de-prioritized spammy products. On the other hand, the usual product ontologies may also simply not be up to fine-grained-enough categorization. |
@J12t
The seller defines what an item's categories are, and they are trying to cover all the ways people might search. That part will be the same on any platform.