Ask HN: Optimal shop sorting?

2 points by yeti 16 years ago | 1 comment

We have an online shop has a lot of user submitted items.

Up to now we sort by default by newest, but it's becoming a mess now, hard to find the good items.

Are there any algorithms or suggestions for best sorting?

We are considering a ranking based on:

Sort by revenue generated with a weight for age (previous 24 hours sales * 100 + previous one week sales * 30 + previous months sales * 20 + previous year * 10 or whatever)

Any suggestions?

ryanteo 16 years ago |

Hi, I'm new to programming but I'd like to ask a few questions: 1. What's your definition of good items? 2. Do you think your problem sounds like it could be solved by genetic algorithms (provided that computational costs are acceptable)? It seems like a possible way to think about it would be to let the best selling products compete to be on the first page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm