Re: How to encode a product family?

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> *"Could you not refer to the manufacturer's page for asserting  such a
> relationship?:"*


Oh, one could definitely do so but the problem I keep running into on large
scale e-commerce sites is that the product data they receive/have in 99% of
the cases doesn't contain any 'product family' nor any 'manufacturer's
page' information. Which is a serious issue for sites containing more than
100k products as on that scale it isn't feasible to manually find/add such
information.

What happens in these cases is that such parties write algo's that compare
products based on the information they do have ('name', 'brand' and some
string information) to 'sort of' deduct what the product family is. But
since the outcome of such algo's often contain a certain error rate it's
nearly impossible to state these fall under the same product model.

The end result more often than not is an approximated grouping these
businesses internally call product families and which most of the time
differ from the product manufacturers state are part of a product model
line.

Something that makes me wonder for a long time already whether we should
have ProductFamily type to accommodate this type of grouping.

2016-05-03 17:37 GMT+02:00 Hans Polak <info@polak.es>:

> Hi Alexandre,
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> Could you play around with it here
> https://generator-1260.appspot.com/ProductModel ?
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> I'd love to get more feedback.
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> Cheers,
> Hans
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