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Amazon's search system is terribly broken, in many way. For example, if you try to sort by price, perhaps to find the cheapest option, then the results will be
by joosters 10y ago
Amazon's search system is terribly broken, in many way. For example, if you try to sort by price, perhaps to find the cheapest option, then the results will be filled with random other items from completely unrelated products, no matter how exact your search is, or whether or not you are searching in one department/section or another.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoGod, yes. Searching by price gives you a price-first ordering of every possible result for any part of your search term.
- thearn4 10y agoI think it's a problem with 3rd party sellers being chronically incapable of listing their products correctly. Overall the platform would benefit from at least a small amount of manual curating.
- sesutton 10y agoSorting by best score is equally useless. You get random products that have one 5 star review that are often nothing like what you actually searched for. A better method would be the one described here[0], which reddit uses for its "best" comment sorting. [0]http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....