Check out our new keyword tagging contest if you have a minute today.

Since the beginning of this project, the bot has had trouble with items that vendors tag with wrong keywords or misleading descriptions. For example, take a look at this “Harry Potter” bracelet on AliExpress. So far the bot has simply crawled the descriptions on a product’s page in order to identify keywords. However this has resulted in a list of keywords that we were never quite happy with.

So we have put together this little contest where you can help us tag some of the items that the bot is buying, score points and possibly win weekly prizes. The data from this page will be an important signal for the bot going forward and give it a tighter keyword list.

On the contest page you see an image of an item that the bot has bought with eight keywords below it. Click on the keyword that you think is the best fit with the product. You get a point if you select the word that most other people have also selected for the product. If you are on the leaderboard at the end of the week you win glorious prizes!

How are the eight keywords picked? Some are keywords that the bot has already associated with the product and some are entirely random. If the random keywords get clicked on the contest starts showing them more often.

As we are just rolling this out, please let me know what you think. (alexander@bobcatinabox.com)