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Just wondering as I often do...
How difficult is it to build a website like moneysupermarket, kelkoo, or holiday websites where there are loads of different product all compared.
I presume this is an automated process. How does it work with constantly updated deals ect? Is it expensive to prepare? What are the advantages/drawbacks?
regards
Stuart
Fairly difficult.
Well... once you have the product database it is easy, but compiling a product database and keeping it updated is the difficult part.
... I've done something like it, and understand this, like for instance the walmart database measures in the gigabytes, trying to do a couple dozen merchants was just about breaking mysql, even on a dedicated server.
So, it isn't just programming knowledge, you need infrastructure.
ah well, just wondering.
Gigabytes:eek: oh dear that sounds a bit tedious to trawl through and update.
Thanks
It has gotten easier though.
Linkshare for instance now has a rudimentary API for accessing merchant data, you don't need to maintain your own database.
Amazon has had one for years.