Re:Ask HN: I need to categorize 150,000 products
by japhyr on Saturday August 18, 2012 @01:18PM
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This was my first thought as well. If you are not confident in everyone's ability to categorize the items, you could develop some user profiles as described previously, and allow your more knowledgeable users to categorize items. This would be similar to the way HN allows users with a certain karma to downvote, and how StackOverflow has tiers of privileges.
Re:Ask HN: I need to categorize 150,000 products
by polyfractal on Saturday August 18, 2012 @11:40AM
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Clever...I think I may have that data logged right now. I'll see about retroactively using that data to model categories and see if they are relevant. Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: I need to categorize 150,000 products
by yossilac on Monday August 20, 2012 @10:19AM
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You seem to use a simple search algorithm.
I searched for "battery", and only got results that had "battery" in the title.
So basically, you could just skip the whole process and make each word in the title a tag...
That's unless you're using something more sophisticated and I just didn't realize.
Could you categorise an item under the search term that people used to look for it? For example, let's say they enter a search term which brings up a range of items and they click on one. You can then add that item to a category whose name is the search term. Clicking on the category would bring up all the items people searched for successfully in the past.