Thread: How online comparison sites works?

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    How online comparison sites works?

    Hi

    I've trying to find some information on online comparison sites. Like how it works? What would one need to create such sites? etc.

    I've been searching on google for hours now but without much success

    Can anyone help me on this please ?

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    Seems like I've stepped into an unknown, mysterious territory

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    Or perhaps a vague and ambiguous one.

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    What exactly do you want to know ?

    The comparison is fairly simple: such sites either have an automated process to extract information or a team of workers to extract the needed information and save them in a database. This is usually a bunch of "criteria" and each entry or item that is in the database has a correspondence to each criteria.

    The user builds a a search query and this query is evaluated in regard to the data corpus, using similarity formula such as euclidean distance, cosine distance, block distance or fuzzy distance.

    If you have any specific questions, go ahead.

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