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I was at an Amazon all-hands years ago (I haven't worked there for years) and I saw an employee ask Bezos what Amazon was going to do about the poor quality of
by catalogia 7y ago
I was at an Amazon all-hands years ago (I haven't worked there for years) and I saw an employee ask Bezos what Amazon was going to do about the poor quality of search. Bezos brushed off the criticism and said the search team did good work.
I don't know why. Maybe he earnestly thinks it's good, or just has different priorities. But I don't expect it to get better.
- senderista 7y agoI was there too when someone asked why Google seemed to always have better search results for Amazon.com than Amazon itself, and I remember he said that if you always start searching on Amazon and only fall back to Google when you don't like Amazon's results, you'll notice when Amazon has poor results and Google has good results, but not the reverse. Something of a copout perhaps, but I thought it was an astute observation.
- swiley 7y agoHonestly it’s really good to hear it’s not intentionally bad. I wish there was a way to just download the catalog and query/search/sort it myself though.
- catalogia 7y ago> I wish there was a way to just download the catalog and query/search/sort it myself though. That would be nice and not entirely without precedent, since you can download some of IMDB's catalogue (owned by Amazon since 1998.) However I suspect this feature is a vestigial remnant of IMDB's earlier days on Usenet. https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/ https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/
- swiley 7y agoThere are other e-commerce sites: Sparkfun let you do this until a few years ago, I think you still can with digikey.