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| tooki:
--- Quote from: nctnico on August 19, 2022, 07:23:46 pm ---Same here. It has always amazed me how Amazon became so popular with such a poor search feature (if you can even call it that). I don't even bother; I use Google to find product and if that happens to be Amazon, so be it but in most cases a different webshop pops up earlier in the search results. For me Amazon is the last resort after Aliexpress (which has a much better search function). --- End quote --- And that’s saying a lot, given how awful AliExpress’ search is! P.S. I edited my post to include another section about non-English search. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: bd139 on August 19, 2022, 06:05:00 pm --- --- Quote from: tooki on August 19, 2022, 05:11:37 pm ---Well that’s the thing… I no longer consider Amazon to be convenient. Low prices be damned, if it takes me hours of clicking around to actually select and purchase the item I want, I’m going to go elsewhere. I’m too lazy, err, “my time is too valuable” to waste on their stupid website. :/ --- End quote --- As with all shops they’re fine if you know what you want and how much it costs. --- End quote --- I wish that were the case, but as others have pointed out, the search is heavily biased to show you what Amazon wants you to buy instead of what you're looking for. I too have often tried searching for an exact item and it will show me all sorts of irrelevant stuff and there is no effective parametric search. Just last night I was looking for some .22 airgun pellets and it showed me pages and pages of the more common .177 caliber. I gave up and bought some from a different vendor that allowed me select the size I wanted. I run into this sort of thing constantly. On the other hand sometimes I search for something and I find products that are totally suitable, but it's usually when I want something less specific, say a new belt or a pair of slippers, I'm not looking for a specific item, so I browse until I encounter one that looks suitable. |
| thm_w:
--- Quote from: james_s on August 19, 2022, 07:31:48 pm ---I wish that were the case, but as others have pointed out, the search is heavily biased to show you what Amazon wants you to buy instead of what you're looking for. I too have often tried searching for an exact item and it will show me all sorts of irrelevant stuff and there is no effective parametric search. Just last night I was looking for some .22 airgun pellets and it showed me pages and pages of the more common .177 caliber. I gave up and bought some from a different vendor that allowed me select the size I wanted. I run into this sort of thing constantly. On the other hand sometimes I search for something and I find products that are totally suitable, but it's usually when I want something less specific, say a new belt or a pair of slippers, I'm not looking for a specific item, so I browse until I encounter one that looks suitable. --- End quote --- Not saying their search isn't garbage, but I could not reproduce that. I don't see a single .177 listing. |
| james_s:
Oddly that search is working for me now too, but it certainly wasn't the other day. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote ---For example, try “Clairefontaine 60g A4”. It’s currently sold out on Amazon UK (as I can verify by copying its ASIN to a URL), but even expressly selecting “include out of stock” won’t find it. Adding the product number (1929C) doesn’t help. --- End quote --- Didn't have a problem here. Edit: maybe those having a problem don't have Prime :) |
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