that's your guess and what they tell investors. my guess is sheer incompetency hidden by sales volume. at some point they had the idea of translating the sear

that's your guess and what they tell investors. my guess is sheer incompetency hidden by sales volume. at some point they had the idea of translating the search to categories and showing alternatives. it got both unmaintained and other products teams added their own self interest on top of the algo and now you have the worst search on the planet which nobody have the political power to fix because it touches everyone revenue, even if for worse