Ice Scan is a product search engine for consumer electronics, computer hardware and software, telephony, mobile phones, household appliances, and much more...
www.icescan.com - USA version
Ice Scan uses the domain and i18n modules to build a fully multi-domain, multi-site and multi-lingual system: 12 languages, 11 domains, 11 Solr databases - all from 1 Drupal core using 1 MySQL database, on 1 server.
When I read TheFind.com was funded with 20 million USD investment capital,... (back in 2005)... I knew it could be done on Drupal for nothing. And it looks like I'm going to be right. I imagined these large corporations spent millions $$ alone on their 'patentend search technologies'. But a similar, equally powerful search technology ships for free in Drupal's Apache Solr Integration Project. No need to re-invent the wheel.
This is a personal project and still just a try-out for a much bigger project. Eventually the idea is to compete with TheFind.com and Google Shopping. The system will also be released as a Drupal installation profile, so others can setup their own affiliate product search system. Release date for such a profile will take a while, expect it around late 2011, early 2012, and will be done on Drupal 7, when the time comes. I first need to focus on building the new business and a series of such search sites.
