http://qwertyshirty.googlepages.com/
Mike from MJR Productions recently quietly rolled out an early version of his qwertyshirty service. It’ll help you search the Marketplace, something we still don’t have working properly.
It index all the shops of Spreadshirt EU & US, Cafepress, Zazzle and Printfection. You can pick one or all. Enter a term and it runs away does clever google stuff and comes back with some nice results.
Its a really nice idea. Find a gap, plug it with simple technology that won’t fail. Pat yourself on the back Mike. Just one small complaint, why are Zazzle always first when you search with all? 
And a challenge, find a googlewhack shirt. Somewhere amongst all the hundreds of thousands of shirts made on print on demand services like Spreadshirt there must be one so niche, its never been replicated. The “shirtwhack”. The search string must be two words and must lead to one particular shirt related to the search string. Happy hunting, comment your finds.
I have only found one so far (and its a poster not exactly a shirtwhack) “slave rubber” (purely random words that lead me here I promise ;), which leads to this mighty fine Zazzle poster.
Ami
Dave
Tanks for the article on QwertyShirty Adam. I hope to develop it further to include other POD companies, as well as add some content on the tshirt marke in general.
The reason that Zazzle always comes top is because their pages are higher ranked (by Google) than Spreadshirts
And whys that?
Nobody (except Google) knows exactly how their algorithms work, but two things count against Spreadshirt, which also count as bonus points for Zazzle. So a double whammy for Spreadshirt.
1. The levels in the URL - Spreadshirt = 9 and Zazzle = 2, for any given design
2. Spreadshirt revamped all their URLs “recently” which means they are all new pages to Google, not established like Zazzle.
There may be other reasons, but that’s my take on it.
Mike Roberts
http://tshirts.mjrproductions.co.uk