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Maybe it's because Amazon's site is just trash, but it's the trash we've become accustomed to. When you search for a very specific product and then choose sort
by elmerfud 5y ago
Maybe it's because Amazon's site is just trash, but it's the trash we've become accustomed to. When you search for a very specific product and then choose sort by price and all if a sudden hundreds of irrelevant cheap items are at the top of the list. That's total trash design from a user perspective.
From a corporate perspective it's a great design because they have such a large market share. Now they just have all other sorting methods broken/useless except their default. Their default sort they can say "algorithms" while waving their hands, and we all just go, ok sounds good and we keep buying. Because as a consumer it's good enough for us.
People used to complain about Walmarts requirements for selling in there stores. Amazon is just as bad.
- jjtheblunt 5y agoNowadays I feel Amazon's main insight (originally) was to test feasibility of an online searchable/shoppable version of Walmart.
- ravenstine 5y agoWhat I don't get is why their search pigeonholes you into a certain category, and often the category isn't accurate. I find I get better results when I set it back to "all departments".