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Why is Amazon's search engine so pathetic? - freeradical - 01-14-2013
I narrow a search for items between $25-50, and it also returns a $100 item and a $280 dollar item.
It returns items not even remotely related to what I'm looking for.
Is Amazon the new iTunes store or what?
Re: Why is Amazon's search engine so pathetic? - Michael - 01-14-2013
I'd imagine they're hoping you'll change your mind and get that $280 item.
Re: Why is Amazon's search engine so pathetic? - M A V I C - 01-14-2013
Because someone will get fired if such a major problem is logged. If the issue isn't logged, it won't get fixed.
Re: Why is Amazon's search engine so pathetic? - MGS_forgot_password - 01-14-2013
Because it's listed at Amazon for $25-$50, but another seller is pricing it much higher?
Re: Why is Amazon's search engine so pathetic? - cbelt3 - 01-14-2013
Because it was $25 until their Rich People Detector ™ saw that it was you, and jacked up the price. Serves you right for using a Mac. If you use Windoze Xp and Internet Exploder, you get Po people pricing.
Re: Why is Amazon's search engine so pathetic? - hal - 01-14-2013
It's not the $ filter - the whole damned search engine is useless - the loose so many sales from me because of this...
Search for a specific model of a hard drive for example - drives with the model number you enter show up, but so does lots of other stuff...
Re: Why is Amazon's search engine so pathetic? - Lux Interior - 01-14-2013
MGS_forgot_password wrote:
Because it's listed at Amazon for $25-$50, but another seller is pricing it much higher?
That's what I always assumed. They could still provide a more robust interface.
I would like an option to only read reviews from verified purchases. It would come in handy sometimes.
Re: Why is Amazon's search engine so pathetic? - OWC Jamie - 01-14-2013
You want a $25-$50 hard drive ?
Have I got a deal for you.
Google (shopping) is just as bad. results are driven by associates and (paid) associations , not what's out there.
Re: Why is Amazon's search engine so pathetic? - anonymouse1 - 01-14-2013
I've always assumed that they're throwing stuff at the wall, to see what sticks--i.e., showing stuff to you in the hope that you'll buy more than you intended to.
Agreed, the Amazon search sucks.
Re: Why is Amazon's search engine so pathetic? - Z - 01-14-2013
Just like the big auction site's search engine revision sometime late last year to throw in anything and everything related. At least with the auction site, I've found adding an except modifier, e.g. 'iphone5 -iphone4s' will properly filter the results.