Why is Amazon's search engine so pathetic?

[hal]

I'm a master at ebay's search - with quotes, minuses and parentheses you can zoom right in on what you want. Amazon ignores ANY modifiers in searches - maddening!

[NewtonMP2100]

.....search me.......??

[Chakravartin]

freeradical wrote:
I narrow a search for items between $25-50, and it also returns a $100 item and a $280 dollar item.

Some sellers of those expensive items have listings -- possibly for used versions -- that are priced in that range.

[decay]

ebay recently removed the wildcard search using *


b*st*rds!!!

[Carm]

decay wrote:
ebay recently removed the wildcard search using *

b*st*rds!!!

"Search using the wildcard symbol (*) is no longer supported."

Animals!!!!!!