How Athath works
From crawl to honest price to plan
No black box. This is the real journey every product you see goes through — five steps, each with what’s genuinely true and its limits, and every claim linked to its proof page.
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We crawl public stores — ethically
We gather publicly available catalog, price, and availability data from Egyptian furniture stores. We identify our crawler honestly, respect robots.txt and Terms of Service, are gentle with every site, and never circumvent a protection.
The honest limit: Public data only — no private or logged-in content. If a site asks us not to crawl, we stop.
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We dedupe the same product across stores
One product can appear in ten stores with different titles and photos. We match and merge it into a single record, so you see the product once with all its offers — not ten confusing copies.
The honest limit: Matching is probabilistic, not perfect; some duplicates may slip through or two near-identical items merge. We always show the source so you can check.
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We enrich and categorize
We extract category, dimensions, material, and color from the source data and normalize the formatting. Anything we estimate (rather than what the source states) is clearly labelled as an estimate.
The honest limit: We don’t machine-translate catalog text and present it as native — we show it as it is, to protect the accuracy of product facts.
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We show an honest price band — not a fabricated “best price”
Because a product appears at different prices, we show a real band (lowest to highest across offers) with its confirmation date — not a single invented number implying a deal that isn’t there.
The honest limit: A price can be stale; we label its freshness plainly and link to the source page for the final price.
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You search, compare, and plan
You search across Arabic and English together, compare side by side, and build a room or home plan with a buy-list — then go to the original store to buy. Ranking is by relevance and merit, never by payment.
The honest limit: We don’t sell; the purchase happens at the store. And ranking is never for sale.
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