Thanks for all the feedback. Great to know you guys will always help with some really relevant points.
DMP & Domainlover - great point you make...we are restricting results to domains with target prices - actually prices below $10,000 to reward those who have made the effort to put prices on their names. This also indicates a more serious seller so more likely to end in a result.
I think it also devalues the whole domain aftermarket if they see a suggestion for a mediocre name with a target price of $200,000. We all know there's plenty of domains like that out there.
However you are absolutely right in that we should make an exception to this rule for exact matches - we'll make the change straight away. Thanks!
Troy - yes that has been a problem we've recognised. It's just so hard to tell an algorithm the meaning of a word... how to effectively split a compund word has also been something we've laboured with for many weeks.
I'm not sure there is a really good solution for this esp with small words like 'art'.
However we do have some other ideas up our sleeves to help the matching. We're also working on an algo to help us order the returned domains in terms of quality... and even in terms of competitive target price (relative to value).
As for your comment about budget domains - we're using all domains under $10,000 which is definitely more than just budget names. It's our opinion that if someone is looking to spend $25-$45 to register a domain, we're realistically very unlikely to push them into buying a second choice domain for more than $10K. However as per the comments above, we'll drop that restiction for exact matches.
Thanks again - please keep any comments coming!