Dear Amazon, your search sucks.

[techs]

Someone should figure out how to search Amazon so I don't get chocolate milk when I search for desktop memory.






Just sayin'.....

 

[silverpig]

You sure you didn't search for desktop mammary?

 

[darkswordsman17]

I don't think I've had that happen. Plus are you sure its Amazon's fault? Can't companies game the search terms? Or are you sure it wasn't because you had already searched for chocolate milk, or maybe people who buy desktop memory also buy chocolate milk?

Amazon's site in general kinda sucks, but seems like every online store does any more. I assume its deliberate now, kinda like places changing their stores up every so often to move items to force people to have to see different stuff hoping it will get them to buy other stuff.

 

[Jeff7]

Or if you put in a price range of $50-$100, and still get things well outside of the price range.

Or the ability to show more items per page than the default.

Or the way their website has started seriously bogging down Firefox by constantly loading more and more crap on each page.

 

[shortylickens]

Thats not a bug. Its a feature.

They want you to see EVERYTHING their site offers. Then they want you to buy it.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Need to be able to trim crap brands from search results. I want to be able to click any product in the search results and choose "Remove everything of this brand." I often find myself wading through large quantities of worthless products, and the only way to remove them is by specifically selecting the other 120 desirable brands, prior to searching.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Newegg should stop selling that rosewill garbage and license their web site to other retailers instead.

And third party "partners" that enter product wrong (like 4GB IDE hard drives that show up when I search filter for 4TB SATA, or the chocolate milk issue mentioned above) should be reportable, with >X complaints getting them banned from the site for six months.

 

[Exterous]

Someone should figure out how to search Amazon

Agreed. Its not like they don't have the resources or have had many good examples.

 

[smitbret]

This is the ONE reason that I still use NewEgg and pay for their shipping and slower delivery times.

Amazon's search is bloated and horrible for casual browsing. If I know a specific item (Make & Model) then it works OK. Otherwise, it's just as fruitful to do a general search with Google or Yahoo! to figure out exactly what I want before I even try Amazon.

 

[techs]

This is the ONE reason that I still use NewEgg and pay for their shipping and slower delivery times.

Amazon's search is bloated and horrible for casual browsing. If I know a specific item (Make & Model) then it works OK. Otherwise, it's just as fruitful to do a general search with Google or Yahoo! to figure out exactly what I want before I even try Amazon.

That's how I often do it.

 

[Vdubchaos]

Thats not a bug. Its a feature.

They want you to see EVERYTHING their site offers. Then they want you to buy it.

THIS

Remember, company is in business to profit.

The search is not for consumer, it's for company to steer you into what they want to sell.....

 

[AMDZen]

It shows chocolate milk probably as one of those "people who bought this also bought this"

Because you need some chocolate milk while you're installing the memory, duh

 

[CurseTheSky]

Unfortunately, I agree. Their search isn't bad overall, but there are a few things that are infuriating.

For example, if I check "Prime Offers Only," WHY must they insist on showing non-Prime-eligible items? If an item is offered by Amazon.com, but is out of stock and expected within several weeks or months, please show that on the search results page, not after I click through to an item. If I specify a price range, why am I still seeing items that are well above the range? I've even checked all offers for some items (marketplace sellers) and in many cases, none of them are within the price range.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

newegg search > *
amazon search is of teh suck

 

[marvdmartian]

You sure you didn't search for desktop mammary?

Mammaries....like the titties on my mind..... :whiste:

Amazon tends to go more of a shotgun approach to their searches. Like when I drill down through their sublevels of flash memory, to where they should only be showing me micro-sdhc, and I'm still getting full sized SDHC cards.

 

[Aikouka]

When it comes to things like BluRays, I like to be cheap and buy the ones on sale, so you think organizing by price at Amazon would work? Nope. I can't remember whether it organizes by MSRP or some weird, arbitrary number that I couldn't deduce at a cursory glance.

 

[HN]

have you noticed that if you tried to select some text in the search field and you move the cursor out of the field so that it hits one of the drop down menus, that it clears out the selection you made?

*edit* just imagine there's a mouse cursor there; couldn't capture it in the program i'm using.

 

[DigDog]

someone should figure out a way to find *any* product on Amazon without running into that one trader who posts thousands of copies of the same product, but listing it as "compatible with"
i.e want some ddr3 ram?

here is trader A's ddr3 2133
and here is trader B's crap, overpriced ddr1300 for Acer0510
the same stick of ddr3 1300 for Acer3310
the same for ddr3 1300 for Asus 1450
again for ddr1300 for Asus 1550
for every mode l of asus. for every model of Dell. for every model of every pc ever made.
thousand of listings of the same identical stick of ram.

i'm a reasonable man but if i was in charge i'd have him shot.

 

[MotionMan]

Newegg should stop selling that rosewill garbage and license their web site to other retailers instead.

And third party "partners" that enter product wrong (like 4GB IDE hard drives that show up when I search filter for 4TB SATA, or the chocolate milk issue mentioned above) should be reportable, with >X complaints getting them banned from the site for six months.

What's worse is when I am searching for a product that I know the manufacturer, model number and other details, and I get 12 different choices, some sold by Amazon, some not.

I should get one result with a list of the possible places to buy it from, not a number of results that I have to click through to figure out 1) why the results are different and 2) which result is the one I actually want to buy through.

MotionMan

 

[quackagator]

Life is hard

 

[boomhower]

I'll jump on this train, it plain sucks.

 

[shortylickens]

THIS

Remember, company is in business to profit.

The search is not for consumer, it's for company to steer you into what they want to sell.....

I dont mind amazon doing that, but when google started forcing paid results over what people actually wanted, it was the beginning of the end.

 

[techs]

I would say its a first world problem but Amazon stuff is bought by third worlders.

 

[phucheneh]

Amazon is the only site I will let 'search by relevance,' not because it works well, but because all other options make it that much fucking worse.

The only way to get a half-competent search is to pick a specific category (which isn't even possible a lot of the time, as the results are all spread out) and then choose 'sold by Amazon.com,' at which point you MAY be able to sort by price or something logical without five thousand bullshit results in the way.

 

[Imp]

That cursor in the box thing is annoying...