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Quarantine
Feed row stored for diagnosis. It cannot create a page.
ProductFindr field manual / 01
A product is not a page. It is an identity with evidence.
ProductFindr separates products, variants, merchants and price observations before a comparison reaches the public catalog. Uncertainty is recorded instead of designed away.
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canonical records
713
retailer offers
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offers inside freshness window
10
merchant identities
The catalog pipeline
Volume enters quietly. Quality earns the page.
Future network feeds can contain thousands of offers. They land in quarantine first. Exact identifiers can merge automatically; title similarity can only request a human review.
- 01
Ingest
Keep the original merchant row, URL, timestamp and network identity.
- 02
Normalize
Standardize brand, identifiers, currency, condition and variant attributes.
- 03
Match
Use valid GTIN first, then exact brand plus MPN. Never auto-merge from a title.
- 04
Score
Measure identity, freshness, merchant coverage, useful specifications and provenance.
- 05
Publish
A new feed-derived product must clear the decision-grade gate before it can receive an indexable page.
The new-feed publication gate
60—79
Review
Candidate stays internal while proof or decision data is missing.
80—89
Indexable
A new canonical record can enter the public catalog.
90—100
Featured
A new record can also qualify for recommendations and highlights.
Identity before volume
A valid GTIN or a verified brand and MPN can unite merchant offers. Bundles, sizes and generations remain separate variants.
Dated prices, never live claims
Every visible price carries its own check date. After seven days without a successful refresh, the number disappears.
Revenue cannot reorder truth
Affiliate status does not change offer order or compatibility results. Commercial links are disclosed before the click.
Each universe earns its own gate
Home Theater requires an exact Open Icecat or reviewed-source image. A free-feed price may remain visible for 30 days; without one, the page explicitly asks the buyer to check the current price. Golf keeps its documented specialist-retailer window.