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Old April 8th, 2008   #1
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Check out my New Vehicle/Parts Classifieds Search Site

Just wanted to get some feedback on a new vehicle classifieds website that I built. The site searches for car, truck and motorcycle classifieds from approximately a dozen sources and then presents them in a clean easy to search format. Results can be filtered by year and location. Each vehicle model has its own RSS feed so you can subscribe to many and have them delivered to your browser instantly.

Anyway, the url is: www.ownster.com Please check it out. If you find it worthy, tell a friend. It's a bit rough around the edges and I welcome all of your comments and suggestions!
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Re: Check out my New Vehicle/Parts Classifieds Search Site

Sure would be nice to have and advanced search...

example: find all cars in a year range, or find all chryslers within 25 miles of a zip code.
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Thanks for the input Peter. I plan on adding a year range type of search in the next few days. As for the zip radius search, it is not possible (at this time) since a good portion of the classifieds don't include a zip code in their RSS feed.
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Re: Check out my New Vehicle/Parts Classifieds Search Site

Hi I did a search for some tires , I tried

525/550-18 and got 21 records found

did 5.25-5.50-18 and got well over the 250 and all over the place on what was for sale every thing but tires .

so I tried

"5.25-5.50-18" and again it was a lot of items well over the 250 but every thing but the tires in that size .

then the search that got 21 finds in
"525/550-18" and that again found the same 21 items , so I added the word tires and then it found 9 items .

So It seams to be all over the place and how would you get to look at all the adds over the 250 limet place just in case I did have some down time .

Then I put in the word Marbles and that should have had way to many hits but only came up with one and it SETOF 4 INDEXED CIRCLE TRACK TIRES (PHX) ,and the add said
THIS SET OF 4 IS COVERED WITH "MARBLES" NEED TO BE CLEANED OFF, LOTS OF RUBBER LEFT GOODYEAR EAGLES 26.5X10X15 .

So this might be some thing with remembering old searches I just had ?? but marbles should have went over the chart . may be I would have to refresh the browser every time ??? Mike
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Re: Check out my New Vehicle/Parts Classifieds Search Site

Hello mmuehlba. Thanks for looking and posting feedback. [img]<>/smile.gif[/img] The results returned when searching for parts will only be as good as the titles/descriptions people use when creating their classifieds. If your search is not getting any results or not the results you'd expect, then it is because the sellers are not using 'your' search terms to describe their products. Make sense?

Furthermore, the parts search on Ownster.com is done in real time and takes longer to process than vehicle listings. That is why I only return 250 results. I'm trying to keep page response times to under 5 seconds. If there is need to bump the # of results up, I can do that with no problem.
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Hi well it still seams to be missing things
search

"1990 Chevy 350"

84 matches cane up but did not find mine . Mike

http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/pts/632335187.html

1990 Chevy 350 was running on Saturday - $400 (Lannon WI 53046 )
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OK. I'm with you now. There are over 100 craiglist regions. One of my goals was to limit duplicate content since sometimes sellers post their classifieds in multiple craiglist regions. That said, I was only using the larger cities across the USA for my parts search.

I have since added Milwaukee and Richmond to the searches. If anyone sees a craiglist city that I should add, please let me know.

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WOW well that was fast and just to check all I did was type in marbles and it did find my auction that way . Just the only thing I found my Reo in a lot smaller area and that to me was much to my advantage . Is it hard to get all of the areas listed as that would be something better than sliced bread . But so far not bad .

but I also then searched "Chevy 350" in quotes and it posted a lot but any thing with the word chevy or 350

and this is one a set of wheels for a chevy and the 350 was the price .

4 15"x7" alloy rims to fit small chevy truck or astro van excellent shape $350.00 obo call jeff @ 303.378.7234 or e-mail jdtravel46@msn.com


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Gee, I think one make of car is left out!
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