• SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 day ago

    What I don’t get is HOW people shops on Amazon, their search engine is the shittiest I’ve seen in a long time: “you searched for AMD RX1234 video card; here is a RX1235, a RX1024, and another one from a completely different brand! People also searched for other that is maybe related to that”

    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      32 minutes ago

      Yeah, their search is basically the main thing keeping me away from their store.

      If I type in EXACTLY what I want, down to the exact type number, it’ll first show me things that vaguely have the same text, followed by things in the same category, followed by something totally random like a waffle iron, and MAYBE on page 2, there’s the thing I need. Show me that FIRST, not the slew of crappy clone/fake/off-brand shit or things not even in the same category.

      I usually have better luck just going to Google and searching it that way. Usually that gets me to the item straight away. Like it should be.

    • anhydrous@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      18 hours ago

      For sure; you’d have better luck finding product listings from another search engine their own search. I feel like it used to be better. Years ago, it would return exactly what I searched for, but not today. I think that was before 3rd party resellers were as common as today though