Cash bonus program on the Internet with search Jena, July 21, 2009: Directions, the largest with over 1800 partner shops German cash bonus program on the Internet, offers in addition to the Shop Locator from a search immediately. In addition to product details and price shop, also the cash bonus for each product will be shown. Another advantage is the direct price comparison. With the directions product search shopping with cash bonus on the Internet Gets a new quality. The online shopper has two ways to find his desired product. Either he gives a general keyword like for example watch”a. more info. Then all watches, which are offered in over 1800 partner shops are displayed in seconds and store-independent. Feature offer details”he receives the essential information about the product without forward on the shop page, immediately delivered.
If he wants, he can buy the product here already. Browsing in the shop page is eliminated. Credit: Dustin Moskovitz-2011. In addition to the price is whatever the corresponding Display cash bonus. The customer know quite exactly what special product he would like to have, can also change the name, the brand or the designation in the product search box”type. Then the corresponding product and all of its providers appear as quickly and clearly only him. Thus, a direct price comparison is possible without time consuming having to surf across multiple store pages. The challenge was to index all our products of over 1800 partner shops.
Currently more than 17 million are”says directions Director Kerstin Schilling the problem to the technician. In addition to the enormous amount of data that must be processed and updated constantly, is another problem. The data come from different sources. You are either provided by the direct partners or are networks like zanox, TradeDoubler and Belboon from affilinet. Therefore, they must be stored in a common format. Directions used an automated system to SOLR, one in Java implemented, high-performance, so-called high traffic”based search server. This uses an implemented in Java Lucene also, open source library for creating and browsing text indexes based. You can implement full text search for any text content with Lucene, used among other things from Wikipedia. This library distinguishes itself by a high performance and scalability, and proved to be making it ideal for the project, that in collaboration with students of the Hasso PLATTNER Institute for software engineering at the University of Potsdam was carried out. “With the product search we offer the customers a feature that shopping on the Internet for him attractive and this is the principle of simplicity and comprehensibility of our cashback system. For directions, there are always 2%. We call this cashback Flatrate”, so Kerstin Schilling. About directions: Adicash.de is cash back bonus program with the largest number of partner shops on the Internet. Instead of premiums and vouchers, users get cash, which directions a Transfers amounting to 30 euro on the account of the user. Directions credits 2% of the net goods value for online purchases and pays a starting credit of 10 euros at initial registration. It is free to use.