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Re:Amazon laying off corporate employees in rare cutback by gdulli on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:20PM (#16362892)
I think it's a safe assumption that search isn't broken, it's just presented whatever way optimizes revenue while still using your choice of sort column as a guideline to keep it from being too blatant a lie.
Re:Amazon laying off corporate employees in rare cutback by Slansitartop on Monday February 12, 2018 @06:22PM (#16363317)
It's broken from a usability standpoint. "Search by average stars" will give me pages and pages of 5-star products with tiny numbers of ratings before I'll see what I really want: a product with 1,000 ratings and an overall rating of 4.9.