I needed to something different than bugchecking for a couple of hours so I took another look at the Books page. One of the problems I thought was that it was hard to find out if buying at Amazon was such a good idea or that they might be very expensive compared to others. I added a link where you can get an up to date quote of the sales prices at 1) Amazon 2) Half Price Books 3) Barnes & Nobles 4) 1BookStreet 5) Books A Million 6) Half.com (used books)
Now I know it takes (very) long before the prices are displayed. That is caused by the fact that they are being retrieved from all six the sites. I might have to change that so it updates over night and stores it in a database, I started coding this for 1 site and it looked ok, then added another and another....and it suddenly was slow.
Let me know if you find it usefull, if the fact that it could take up to 1 minute for the page to load matters, and if there are any other sites that you like to get added to the list.
quote: Let me know if you find it usefull, if the fact that it could take up to 1 minute for the page to load matters, and if there are any other sites that you like to get added to the list.
gor, I think that many people will be prepared to wait for something like a price comparison. It is not like a page they may have stumbled across and get impatient for the page to load. The result is something useful. Incidently, did you use a 3rd party component to retrieve the data or is it a feature of aspx?
Yeah, very cool script. And it isn't that slow; I'm sure it's a lot faster than going to every site and do a search for the book there... but this script shows you all info in one click. great.
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Posted - 02 August 2001 : 01:26:53
