News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Former Amazon employees bake Bezos principles into their startups. Parent comment

Re:Former Amazon employees bake Bezos principles into their ... by pmiller2 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:00PM (#21876704)
You just articulated basically every complaint I have about buying anything from Amazon. It seems unarguably true that I can’t buy anything from them if I can’t find it. So, why is it so hard to search for anything I don’t already know the exact name of?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Former Amazon employees bake Bezos principles into their ... by heavyset_go on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:24PM (#21876801)
> It seems unarguably true that I can’t buy anything from them if I can’t find it.

Most people are looking for the best value they can get at the lowest price they can find. Amazon's site makes that process difficult and nearly impossible. I can only speculate as to why that is.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Former Amazon employees bake Bezos principles into their ... by krustyburger on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:24PM (#21876802)
So much of the result of a search is now explicitly advertising. Amazon now has a new incentive to sell ads and display those ads as often as possible, whereas before their only goal was to return relevant results to the customer making the search.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Former Amazon employees bake Bezos principles into their ... by pmiller2 on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @12:12AM (#21876959)
You can say the same about Google search, yet their organic results are still quite relevant. Isn’t Amazon supposed to be focusing on the customer?
[ Parent | on HN ]