Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by dodobirdlord on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:32AM (#23936063)

Presumably their data shows them that if they mix in some monitors that aren't 1440p or aren't IPS that customers still sometimes buy those monitors anyway. From Amazon's perspective the search functionality is more of a product discovery functionality. If they only showed what the customer was searching for they would miss out on sales to people who didn't start out with a clear idea of what they wanted.

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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by cmonnow on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:42AM (#23936142)

fine, then come to a middle-ground:

search bar (on the top) for window-shoppers

selection boxes (on the left) for focus-shoppers

If I select 1440p under Resolution, I do not want non-1440p monitors in search results.

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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by yencabulator on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:19PM (#23942037)

The biggest problem with the selection boxes (when they do appear) is the garbage data. In this scenario, you'd get something like "1440p" "1440 pixels" and "1.4KP", sorted nowhere near each other.

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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by yencabulator on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:41PM (#23961577)

Two days later, I'm looking at listings for Pet Supplies > Fish Food, and one of the filter categories is "Number of players".

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