One of my pet peeves about the Shoposphere was that Yahoo! Shopping hid the search feature at the bottom of the page. Well, that’s changed. There’s now a prominent ‘search pick lists’ field on the right side of the page and links to popular searches like digital camera, shoes, and women.
It’s a start, but more needs to be done. Once you’ve made a search, the pick list search field is still burried at the bottom of the page. It’s also a little confusing that the standard Yahoo! Shopping search field doesn’t search for pick lists (even though it does say ‘All of Shopping’). Also, the search results need to be refined as a search for ‘shoes’ brought up the Best iPod Accessories pick list, Chris Saito’s Top Rated Car Seats, and the Mad Scientist Starter Kit – none of which mentioned shoes…just a couple thoughts for the Shoposphere team. In all, though, I’m seeing high quality pick lists (little spam) covering a wide variety of interests. Not a bad beginning.
I’ll follow up with Yahoo! Shopping next Tuesday/Wednesday to get an update on the Shoposphere and the start of the holiday shopping season.
Brian – good catch on the search results for “shoes”. We should have fixed the problem that you noted.
- Chris Saito, Y! Shopping