New bit-tech Shopping engine launched today

Written by Tim Smalley

February 13, 2008 | 16:17

Tags: #cheapest #compare #comparison #deal #price #relaunch #shopping

Companies: #bit-tech

Over the past year, we have been listening to your feedback on how we can make the bit-tech Shopping engine a more useful place for you to find the best prices on the latest hardware and games on the market.

Today we have rolled out the latest update to bit-tech Shopping, which includes a massive aesthetic overhaul built right from the ground up, improved navigation and a bunch of new features.

The shopping engine now not only links back to reviews on relevant products, but also allows you to compare up to four products side by side, allowing you to get down into the nitty gritty direct comparisons with a minimal amount of effort.

If you spot any problems and bugs when you're using the engine, or just want to leave comments and suggestions, please don't hesitate to let us know in the forum thread dedicated to this topic.

Happy Shopping!
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Posted by Firehed - Wed Feb 13 2008 16:34

Am I being retarded, or does cameras no longer have a lens section?
/edit - take that back, but you should have a lenses tab on the right instead of just sticking it under 35mm&SLR. Not exactly the first place I thought to look, especially as you've got less common stuff broken out along the side (and both lighting and flashes sections).

I'd say the taxonomy of the shopping section could use a bit of work ;)

Also, why aren't the RSS icons in the left actually links to the feeds?

Posted by Krikkit - Wed Feb 13 2008 16:53

Holy hell, I can't believe it's been a year since BiT shopping went live!

Posted by Jamie - Wed Feb 13 2008 16:54

Firehed
Am I being retarded, or does cameras no longer have a lens section?
/edit - take that back, but you should have a lenses tab on the right instead of just sticking it under 35mm&SLR. Not exactly the first place I thought to look, especially as you've got less common stuff broken out along the side (and both lighting and flashes sections).

I'd say the taxonomy of the shopping section could use a bit of work ;)

Also, why aren't the RSS icons in the left actually links to the feeds?
I'll moved Lenses up a level, out of the 35mm SLR category.

The entirety of the cameras section is pretty messed up in terms of categorisation. I found kenko tubes under Large Format! Unfortunately the category structure is from PriceGrabber and I've only managed to develop minor dynamic changes to the structure.

I'll see about adding the feed icons to link to the feeds. I only really used them as icons to bring attention to the header but it does make sense for them to link.

Posted by samkiller42 - Wed Feb 13 2008 17:01

Wow, thats some improvment, very clean stylee, well done jamie.

Sam
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