OctoPart: A Vertical Search Engine for Gadget Parts

March 5, 2007

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Octopart is a vertical search engine that lets electronics buyers find great deals by aggregating product data provided by Allied Electronics, Digi-Key, mouser and Newark InOne. Octopart is YCombinator backed and was started by two physics grad students who got tired of searching for identical electronic parts in lots of different catalogs.

Octopart already supports advanced search features like wildcard searches, phrase and boolean matching. Results include price comparisons, specs of the parts in pdf fromat along with images.

The User Interface of Octopart is clean, tidy and extremely usable. As of now it also does not include the Adsense clutter.
OctoPart SERP

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