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Why Can't You Filter by Bluetooth on Amazon?
Episode 4829
Published 1 month, 1 week ago
Description
Daniel needed a laser measure with Bluetooth. Forty-five minutes of clicking product pages later, he still couldn't find one. The data exists in spec sheets, but no retailer exposes it as a filter. This episode explores why e-commerce parametric search is broken — from DigiKey's gold-standard system to Amazon's unstructured merchant feeds — and how AI-powered extraction from PDF spec sheets could finally solve the problem. We look at ThomasNet's real-world deployment and ask whether the same approach could work for consumer buyers.
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