Why is Amazon's search engine so pathetic?

[freeradical]

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?

[Michael]

I'd imagine they're hoping you'll change your mind and get that $280 item.

[M A V I C]

Because someone will get fired if such a major problem is logged. If the issue isn't logged, it won't get fixed.

[MGS_forgot_password]

Because it's listed at Amazon for $25-$50, but another seller is pricing it much higher?

[cbelt3]

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.

[hal]

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...

[Lux Interior]

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.

[OWC Jamie]

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.

[anonymouse1]

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.

[Z]

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.