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A few things:

- The interface is overwhelming. While I understand that you aim to surface power, I think you're not targeting a specific power well enough to cater to a user's needs. For example, if you aim to help a user find deals, you should develop an interface that targets that super power.

- Related to ^, I'm wondering why a user would ever need some of these features... like why would I want to search by hidden keywords?

- Re: branding. I feel like you haphazardly went for a 5-letter dot com, when you could have done something more memorable like amazonhunter.com

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Yes but he would be shutdown instantly if he used "Amazon" in the url

JungleSearch or JungleHunter would be decent compromises.

Agreed. Just some random thoughts

- I'd add some indication of how long the tour is. Felt like I clicked for a while. Maybe I'm just impatient.

- Highlight the input that the tour popup is currently referencing in some way (eg add blue focus border)

- All of your inputs have explanatory text below them, and no labels. They also have no spacing to show what goes with what. You should add labels above the inputs, and put the explanatory text in a tooltip

- You have a breadcrumb kind of display on the top right side. Usually that's on the top left. I also expected it to be interactive since it is styled in blue, like a link

- Can you put the search results in an iframe or something, keeping the user on the same page? Opening a new tab was unexpected.

Thank you for feedbacks! I have changed the tour to show how much it will last when it first show up. Labels are back. I first tried to implement search by Amazon Advertising API but it has lack of some features Amazon have so I changed my mind. I will think iframe option as you suggested. Thank you.

Thank you for feedback. * You are right interface provide too much. My aim is not only provide deals. I mostly use it myself for books search. For technical books I always search for English books which are published in recent years (2 years) I saved my search parameters so I don't enter again again these. Sometimes I want to sort products by most reviews but this sort is absent in most departments. * Hidden keywords are not much fancy I agree. Sometimes I use it to find more results like wrote a nonsense word with minus "-dgeygdeuydgede" Amazon gives more results. * It against of Amazon terms of service.

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