Comments on: Iglooo – Compare book prices

By: emotion-sailor

emotion-sailor — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:42:03 +0000

Hi,
We are upcoming start up and trying hard to get knowledge about book vendors so that can be work in book retail business like flipkart and amazone.Can you help us as you must be having tie ups with diffrent book vendors for price details.

By: Nikhilesh

Nikhilesh — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:41:58 +0000

@Iglooo

You guys have to start caching popular searches and books. You can’t expect users to wait that long while you scour the middle earth.

By: Iglooo

Iglooo — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:01:24 +0000

@Prasanna a.k.a Flipkart Fanatic – You’ll be pleased to know that as of last week we’ve added Flipkart

By: Anil

Anil — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:04:07 +0000

@ Champak…
Maybe it addresses your unique needs. It is possible, there might be different behavior patterns. If I am required to visit amazon for book discovery and then iglooo for actual purchase, convenience value doesnt exist at all !

Of course, meta-searches are yet to make money, it is easier with the low cost base they work upon.

By: Prasanna a.k.a Flipkart Fanatic

Prasanna a.k.a Flipkart Fanatic — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:09:26 +0000

What is the use, if it does not add Flipkart?

By: Champak Bhumia

Champak Bhumia — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:46:34 +0000

Although I agree with most of the points raised by Pranav, I think the design is absolutely kick ass. Coming to discovering books, I do not understand what made you think this is a book recommendation engine. It clearly states, find books by author or title. And I think it does the job quite well on that. Discovering books based on tags would be a neat idea nonetheless and I hope they start this too. I am looking for a book’s cheapest price and I think this does it rather well. If I need to discover books or read summaries, I have amazon and a zillion other such sites.

So, I agree with some points raised here but overall, I think iglooo fits my needs quite well.