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Dislexics are teople poo...
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who speak binary and those who can`t.

Do you mean something like Thomas.net?

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Dislexics are teople poo...
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who speak binary and those who can`t.

I think what you`re looking for is something like Google. :-)

I get your point: You`re trying to find a database of all existing items that may be for sale. That database should remove the item when it no longer is for sale. It should be in real time, and continually be accurate.

Unfortunately, there isn`t any way to gather the data itself, really, without a global incentive to do the data entry. The reason Google has come to dominate the search-engine business is because so many people are willing to put up online data that includes products for sale, product information, and to remove that online information when it expires.

No database is worth anything more than the data entry. The Web itself is limited by what individual human beings are willing to format into an online format, store in an online-accessible location, and maintain. To that end, a search engine "acts like" a database, but only in that it reports out whatever currently is visible to the overall online community.