Google Buys Seattle’s Sparkbuy to Improve Consumer Electronics Search

Were any of you users of SparkBuy? I was...it was excellent. I'm really hoping it will be back in action soon, but somehow given how Google treats these things (e.g. Jot, Dodgeball, etc), I'm thinking it will be awhile.

As I mentioned in another thread on the topic, although not exactly equivalent just yet, our startup is working in the similar space: http://www.happybuy.com/

We are looking to innovate in the online shopping space by providing additional layers including price tracking, recommendations and price predictions. We followed SparkBuy and thought that their search interface (using facets etc) was well done and took ideas from Kayak (and others) into the broader/general shopping space.

We're looking at improving our search interface along similar lines in the future so I'd be interested in thoughts of previous SparkBuy users how our site compares - and any other comments HN'ers may have.

Awesome guys. Great focus. Congratulations.

Great move, Google. Congrats Dan and Scott!

Unbelievable guys - great work Scott, Dan!

Totally awesome - congrats Sparkbuyers!

Holy moley, that was fast.

congratulations, dan and team!