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What absolutely confounds my comprehension of marketplace sites and any online business driven by user directed discovery, is the unbroken and never deviated fr

What absolutely confounds my comprehension of marketplace sites and any online business driven by user directed discovery, is the unbroken and never deviated from practice in every industry and field of making the method and techniques used for search as unique inviolable individual apotheoses of a imaginary USP. why on earth doesn't occur to anyone that heterogeneous search methods producing a range of results with a identifiable classifiable process or at least perceptual sensibility that users can get some understanding of, might provide not only consumer choice but profit? The only thing that I can imagine to be happening is the overriding objectives must be econometric optimization and blow every other consideration. Or maybe it's possible with the adherent mantra of "internet speed" development that without constant investment in maintenance "development" nothing will work if left alone while bringing in alternative abilities.

cookie_monsta 4y ago
This sounds interesting but maybe a little abstract. Could you provide an example of search term/ results you would like to see?
dash2 4y ago
I’d politely suggest that you have interesting points here, and you could get them across much better if you wrote shorter sentences with shorter words.
- Eisenstein 4y ago
  Can you explain what the poster above you was writing? I have trouble parsing it, since it seems they are from some academic discipline I am unfamiliar in.
  - cookie_monsta 4y ago
    I have a sinking feeling they were trying to say "fuzzy search is good"
  - sph 4y ago
    No they're not from any academic discipline. They were ranting about useless search features but trying very hard to incorporate the most flowery and elaborate sentence construction for some reason. It reads like they replaced every single word of their original comment with a synonym or idiom off the thesaurus. They're trying as hard to sound smart and going too far so it's just incomprehensible. "the unbroken and never deviated from practice in every industry and field of making the method and techniques used for search as unique inviolable individual apotheoses of a imaginary USP" Who the hell speaks or even writes like this? EDIT: looks like their whole posting history is like this. Someone fed postgrad literature to GPT-3 and created a bot from it.
  - JoshuaDavid 4y ago
    I'll take a crack at it. > What absolutely confounds my comprehension of marketplace sites and any online business driven by user directed discovery, is the unbroken and never deviated from practice in every industry and field of making the method and techniques used for search as unique inviolable individual apotheoses of a imaginary USP. I don't get marketplace sites. Specifically, it seems like every company decides they have a unique selling point, and they should build all search features around emphasizing that selling point at all costs, instead of building it around showing the user the thing they were looking for. > why on earth doesn't occur to anyone that heterogeneous search methods producing a range of results with a identifiable classifiable process or at least perceptual sensibility that users can get some understanding of, might provide not only consumer choice but profit? Why don't they provide a search interface that will be familiar to their users? Wouldn't that be both more user-friendly and also more profitable? > The only thing that I can imagine to be happening is the overriding objectives must be econometric optimization and blow every other consideration. Or maybe it's possible with the adherent mantra of "internet speed" development that without constant investment in maintenance "development" nothing will work if left alone while bringing in alternative abilities. Maybe the companies are Goodharting themselves to death? Or maybe they value developing new features over making sure that their core infrastructure actually works.

cookie_monsta 4y ago

This sounds interesting but maybe a little abstract. Could you provide an example of search term/ results you would like to see?

dash2 4y ago

I’d politely suggest that you have interesting points here, and you could get them across much better if you wrote shorter sentences with shorter words.

Eisenstein 4y ago
Can you explain what the poster above you was writing? I have trouble parsing it, since it seems they are from some academic discipline I am unfamiliar in.
- cookie_monsta 4y ago
  I have a sinking feeling they were trying to say "fuzzy search is good"
- sph 4y ago
  No they're not from any academic discipline. They were ranting about useless search features but trying very hard to incorporate the most flowery and elaborate sentence construction for some reason. It reads like they replaced every single word of their original comment with a synonym or idiom off the thesaurus. They're trying as hard to sound smart and going too far so it's just incomprehensible. "the unbroken and never deviated from practice in every industry and field of making the method and techniques used for search as unique inviolable individual apotheoses of a imaginary USP" Who the hell speaks or even writes like this? EDIT: looks like their whole posting history is like this. Someone fed postgrad literature to GPT-3 and created a bot from it.
- JoshuaDavid 4y ago
  I'll take a crack at it. > What absolutely confounds my comprehension of marketplace sites and any online business driven by user directed discovery, is the unbroken and never deviated from practice in every industry and field of making the method and techniques used for search as unique inviolable individual apotheoses of a imaginary USP. I don't get marketplace sites. Specifically, it seems like every company decides they have a unique selling point, and they should build all search features around emphasizing that selling point at all costs, instead of building it around showing the user the thing they were looking for. > why on earth doesn't occur to anyone that heterogeneous search methods producing a range of results with a identifiable classifiable process or at least perceptual sensibility that users can get some understanding of, might provide not only consumer choice but profit? Why don't they provide a search interface that will be familiar to their users? Wouldn't that be both more user-friendly and also more profitable? > The only thing that I can imagine to be happening is the overriding objectives must be econometric optimization and blow every other consideration. Or maybe it's possible with the adherent mantra of "internet speed" development that without constant investment in maintenance "development" nothing will work if left alone while bringing in alternative abilities. Maybe the companies are Goodharting themselves to death? Or maybe they value developing new features over making sure that their core infrastructure actually works.