OpenBazaar search engine

[randomblue]

Has anyone tried Duo Search? www.duosear.ch

It's an OpenBazaar search engine. I'm interested in knowing what people think. 

[qsypoq]

Just tested it but can't find myself :/

[randomblue]

What's your OpenBazaar ID or handle?

[qsypoq]

@qsypoq

[altcoinhosting]

couldn't find myself neither... It looks pretty neat, but at the moment, i'm sticking to http://bazaarbay.org/

[Kakmakr]

In your experience, how easy is it to find goods and services on OpenBazaar? I find, if I find something worth it, it only stays on their for a few hours and the next time you search for it, it is gone for hours. I know that is how it was designed and how it was supposed to work, but I think for the average user, new to decentralized market places, this might be a bit confusing.

Most of them are used to centralized services that are always online and available. I guess it has it's pro's and con's and we just have to deal with the way it works, but it's still a challenge for newbies. ^hmmmmm^

[altcoinhosting]

In your experience, how easy is it to find goods and services on OpenBazaar? I find, if I find something worth it, it only stays on their for a few hours and the next time you search for it, it is gone for hours. I know that is how it was designed and how it was supposed to work, but I think for the average user, new to decentralized market places, this might be a bit confusing.

Most of them are used to centralized services that are always online and available. I guess it has it's pro's and con's and we just have to deal with the way it works, but it's still a challenge for newbies. ^hmmmmm^

personally, i use a VPS and run openbazaard.py in deamon mode, this way it stays up pretty well... From time to time, it seems to crash, but overall, i think my page is online about 80% of the time.
That being said: you're correct, most stores go on- and offline rather often, which is a pain in the *ss. Also, the search function within openbazaar kinda blows, i use bazaarbay to find interesting stuff, but like you said: most of the time, the shops are offline.

I hope these problems will go away with later releases, remember, it's a very immature project at the moment

[qsypoq]

Yes, mine is crashing around each 1.5h, it need to be restarted to rework, i just setup a cron task to do it each hours, no more troubles.
But since yesterday the search function is down, it can find anything :/

[eternalgloom]

I find the design a bit easier to navigate then Bazaarbay, so that's pretty good.
Are you planning to add some additional features, like promoted listings for example?

[randomblue]

I find the design a bit easier to navigate then Bazaarbay, so that's pretty good.
Are you planning to add some additional features, like promoted listings for example?

Maybe promoted listings will be added in the future, but not in the short term.

[newcoins1978]

I'm also using http://bazaarbay.org/ and its working good and fine to search up some listings these days.
I already did it on this way to buy a CS:GO item a while back ago.

[HarryKPeters]

I find the design a bit easier to navigate then Bazaarbay, so that's pretty good.
Are you planning to add some additional features, like promoted listings for example?

What I like is the speed and the clean design. It's very easy to navigate though the site.
I hope the site will be developed with more features, i am already liking it to be honest. What's even more suprising you can search in almost 7k listings.