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It seems to have the same drawback like all similar sites I've seen, s.a. Froogle, etc.

I search for Dell Inspiron Laptop and the first pages only contain batteries and accessories. I guess if you sort by price it will always happen like that. You'd either need to label products according to what category they actually are, or just throw out results that are clearly ridiculous: $5 for a laptop.



For your particular search, "Dell Inspiron Laptop", I would expect our current product to return a bunch of batteries and accessories. Only because Dell sells computers like J. Crew sells clothes. That is, if you want to buy a J. Crew Sweater, your best bet is to walk into a J. Crew store.

Sony is a different case. You'll see their systems at many retailers. So, if you search "Sony Vaio"- http://bountii.com/search.php?item=sony+vaio , you'll find our results are more than adequate.

The major strength of current product is that it is great at finding the best prices for people who know what they want. We're in the process of improving our browsing capability as that's the way a lot of people like to shop. And, since we also want that to be one of our big strengths, we'll have to include "Dell Inspiron Laptops" from Dell in our index.

-John




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