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0 pointsansible9y ago0 comments

I'm shopping on Newegg because most other websites have awful category and filtering capabilities.

Edit: But yes, their anti-patent troll activities are something I appreciate.

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One of the beauties of a niche site like Newegg is that they actually understand which products are interchangeable or related.

If I search for USB splitter by price on Amazon, I'm going to get flash drive cases, then USB cables, then flash drives, then I'll get into splitters. Newegg knows I didn't mean that, and that "products like this" shouldn't include everything with a USB connector on one end.

degenerate9y ago

That's a great point, I never thought of searching for accessories on Newegg... even if I end up buying elsewhere, their accessory/peripheral search has always been one of the best on the internet for a long time.

Bartweiss9y ago

I only noticed it when I tried Amazon and got slammed with a hundred pages of "it has a similar name!" matches. You can buy a laptop there fine, but peripherals and internals just aren't arranged in any coherent way.

I'm not sure what Newegg is doing (apart from specializing), but it works damn well.

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Bartweiss9y ago

One of the beauties of a niche site like Newegg is that they actually understand which products are interchangeable or related.

degenerate9y ago

Bartweiss9y ago

I'm not sure what Newegg is doing (apart from specializing), but it works damn well.

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