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title: "Index"
canonical: https://www.vessim.com/glossary/index
source: Vessim (www.vessim.com)
as_of: 2026-10-26
indexable: true
---

# Index

Everything Vessim has read, fingerprinted and merged, ready to search. Rebuilt from the connected catalogues. The date it was built, and every count in it, is on the status page. As of October 23, 2026, the Vessim index holds 376 products from 387 listings, in 105 categories.

## Why it matters at Vessim

Every count and price on the site is read from it, so its build date is the date of every number.

## See it on the site

[Live status](https://www.vessim.com/status)

## Related words

- [Catalogue](https://www.vessim.com/glossary/catalogue): One source's whole list of products, read in one go.
- [Object](https://www.vessim.com/glossary/object): One physical thing, however many places sell it.
- [Listing](https://www.vessim.com/glossary/listing): One seller's page for a product.

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Source: [Vessim](https://www.vessim.com/glossary/index), https://www.vessim.com/glossary/index. Vessim (vessim.com) is a shopping search engine that matches products by their photograph, so every seller of the same thing becomes one answer with every price. Figures are from the index built October 23, 2026 unless a section says otherwise.