Today we have a nice addition to the product search. The 'search descriptions' checkbox has been removed, and in its place is now a slider that lets you control the focus of your search. Sliding it to the left (narrower) will make all the words in the search required. Meaning, only products containing every word you searched for will show up. The default (second) position makes all terms optional. Sliding it to the right will allow you to search for exact words in title AND description. Sliding it to the last position on the right makes the search terms optional and searches both title and description, casting the widest net possible.

Hopefully this makes it easier to find what you're looking for.

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For anyone wondering where the images are: one of our routers caught fire and burned a bunch of things. No images will be available till that situation is rectified.

Edit: Image server is back up.

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It's come to my attention that the watchlist has been triggering on 3rd party items recently, and since they do not consider shipping, the trigger is premature on the item. e.g; User wants Product for $10 and it's for sale by 3rd party at $8 with $5 shipping. User's actual cost is $13, not $8. So it shouldn't have triggered.

While we work on a solution, we have disabled 3rd party products from triggering on the watchlist.

We will also be adding fine tune options on the watchlist, so you can specify which stores can trigger, and if you want to include 3rd party, or used products too.

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We've been hard at work tweaking the website. Price drop pages now include a sidebar so the category limit is more visible and accessible to users.

The browser extensions have had their store url matching updated so they will be able to identify product urls from more stores. TigerDirect was added last night. A few others added in the last few days.

We're currently working on tweaking the search for better results.

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Today we have a revised search algorithm in place that should work a bit better than earlier versions.

We include reddit threads as part of other discussions about a product.

Finally, the charts on the website now allow you to scale the timeframes, allowing you to see the price history of a product based on 30 day intervals.

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Bunch of new updates to talk about today.

1. We now have Chrome and Firefox browser extensions. They allow you to instantly see pricing information directly from your browser as you view the stores that PriceZombie supports.

2. Watchlist can do a one-time import from Amazon. It now can also do a permanent sync too. This means anytime your wish list changes on Amazon, it changes on PriceZombie. Just like magic =)

3. Started adding in automatic preferences. Sort order on many pages now get stored, so you don't need to keep resetting the values.

4. Screenshots on PriceZombie are now 1280x800 resolution. High enough resolution that you can print them out and use for your price protection forms.

5. New store - BestBuy.

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We have a new search engine back end system in place that should help provide much improved results. Example: A search for "poptart" will now match the actual product with the name of "Pop Tarts"

We also have 3 new stores -- welcome Gander Mountain, Macys, and Nordstrom!

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We now have a new menu entry called Lowest Prices. It serves a different purpose to the Price Drop page.

Price drop page lists prices that have recently decreased. It excludes products that have had a price increase and then decrease within a 30 day period in order to omit "false" drops. Products are sorted based on % decreased.

The new Lowest price page is different in that it only lists items that have hit new low prices. A price point lower than we have ever seen before. The sorting is done based on the percentage difference between the last lowest price and the current price.

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We just hit 70 million price points. BestBuy is being added.

Major speed increases have been found in optimizing the way we calculate search results. For most searches, this means a 50% speed up in page load times.

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2 more new stores added. Search results are now in the form of card view instead of list view.

Price trends now broken down by category.

Price drop page also lets you select category to browse through.

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