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Re:Show HN: I scraped 200M Shopify products to build a searc... by rrr_oh_man on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:07AM (#39464479)
> You enter criteria/product name and you get results

Not on Amazon. At least not since 2020 or so.

Re:Show HN: I scraped 200M Shopify products to build a searc... by matterofBee on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:47AM (#39464704)
GP is correct. There is not much value in search itself.

Are you serious about Amazon? I can absolutely find everything I need on Amazon. Who needs exact search when there are better alternatives through recommendation, people also buy etc?

I am curious to know — if you think search on amazon as broken as you think, why do you think people keep buying from Amazon? They have strong logistic network. But, to even start that logistics part, you need to search and buy.

Re:Show HN: I scraped 200M Shopify products to build a searc... by rrr_oh_man on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:11PM (#39474639)
Amazon (as of today, in Europe, for me) is a Wish with better logistics and replacement policy.

If I search for a product like a milk former or a wine opener or a phone case, I already expect the results to be 80% copycat crap and the reviews fake.

Adjusted ratings by various fake spotter tools usually bring down 4.5+ ratings down to 3.0–3.5.

That the search engine absolutely refuses sometimes to include words I want and exclude words I don’t want is the icing on the cake.

If I didn’t forget the renewal date, I’d have quit Prime (which I subscribed to since its introduction) already last year.