About FindSift

The idea

You should be able to say what you actually need — the space you have, the job it has to do, what you want to spend — and get a short list you can reason about, with the reasons stated.

That is what FindSift is being built toward. Not a wall of results ranked by who paid most.

How it works

• Product data comes from merchant catalogues through affiliate networks, refreshed on a schedule.
• Everything is sorted into one consistent set of categories, so products from merchants that describe things differently still sit next to each other.
• When you follow a link to buy, you go to the merchant's own site.

What it is not good at yet

Being straight about this is more useful than a launch announcement:

• Coverage is uneven. Some categories are deep and others have barely anything, depending on which merchants we work with.
• Detail beyond price is limited. We can state price, brand and category reliably. Going deeper — matching detailed specifications between products — needs structured data most merchant feeds do not provide, and that work is in progress.
• We are not the whole market. See how we make money for why, and what it means for what you see.

Where we are

FindSift serves the United States and shows prices in US dollars.