Re:The Amazon Empire Strikes Back
by Brian_K_White on Monday December 06, 2021 @09:40AM
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You cannot trust the search results on Amazon. A sham great experience is not a great experience.
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But it's the best sham experience there is! So frictionless!
I notice that everyone puts all product details in the title of their product because the filters are next to useless. It's like going into a supermarket where all of the products are now on one giant shelf and you have to manually search through the entire shelf because the store doesn't put any effort into putting them into effective aisles, or mandate that the sellers put them in the appropriate aisle.
I don't know why Amazon's filtering is like this - for comparison eBay, which seems less organised on the surface, has very granular filters inside categories. eg - searching for 'buttons' on eBa gives additional filters to narrow by colour, share, type , material, and application... Amazon offers 'works with Alexa' instead.