Comments on: Visual Search: Zappos Explores a New Way to Browse

By: supra skytop

supra skytop — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:11:59 +0000

zappos is a great site, love it.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:23:03 +0000

This is a very clever feature but as a shoe shopper, it would frustrate me. When im looking for shoes I like to know that im not missing out on any, Im also open to considering styles that i wouldn’t normally go for. I start by selecting a category of shoe and then painstakingly look though each and every image. I never sway from this kind of search and if a site doesn’t work in this way for me im likely to leave it. I do think this search would work if you were searching for something definite like say tiles, wall paper or bricks that you already have a theme for but even then the customer can’t be sure they have seen everything on offer and that can be frustrating.

By: AlexPiller

AlexPiller — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:09:59 +0000

Wow, Zappos makes money while other shoe companies loose. Very pretty finding!

By: casey

casey — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:56:29 +0000

Lots of visual search engines haven’t worked that well, or haven’t been closely connected enough to a retailer that I trust. If the tool is good, I’ll certainly use it at Zappos because their word search tool doesn’t always capture all the shoes that fall into the correct categories.

By: Ezekiel

Ezekiel — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:07:37 +0000

Yeah that’s pretty cool! It makes Zappos stand out from the rest.

By: Michael Straker

Michael Straker — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:14:52 +0000

Very neat idea. I also liked the winnowing tool on this site. As you refine your search by price range, discount level, color, etc., it gives you a running total of how many products match all your criteria.

By: Stephanie DeLuca

Stephanie DeLuca — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:27:47 +0000

I love this site. More shoe companies should adopt their features.

By: Audio Bible

Audio Bible — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:47:07 +0000

This looks pretty interesting, I imagine it took a bunch of programmers a while to get this going.

Nice touch.

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:26:26 +0000

Features like this are just novelty. Real shoppers don’t actually use them. In fact they are just confused by them.

Is it cool? Very, but in my opinion its a waste of time.

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:45:29 +0000

I wonder how they have tagged each product. Probably just added a style tag for each look and feel.