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Why do you hope for them to be wrong? Edit: Fix typo.
People suffer in recessions.
On the contrary, I think a recession - and hence a discount in asset prices - is good for people.
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"Search and categories are complete garbage." I'm consulting in the pet space, if you search for 'Mousr' which is the name of a very cool pet toy brand that they carry - you get PC mouses (ie 'Mouse'). Not the brand 'Mousr'. So basically their 'spell correct' 'Mousr->Mouse' utterly and completely overrides the notion that the users wanted to in fact input 'Mousr' to get that product. Instead, in order to find the pro…
It is completely reasonable to optimize for the vast majority typing 'mouse' and potentially misspelling it. Also "mousr petronics" shows up as the 1st choice in the autocomplete when typing "mousr". This is probably one of those products that can and should have its own website and sell from there or link directly to Amazon instead.
I don't think it's reasonable to show one thing when the user typed another.
There are dozens of product results, there's no reason why one of the proper results wouldn't show up as well.
"Results for Mousr ..." "Results for Mouse ..."
etc
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The letter seems to suggest the opposite. > We helped independent sellers compete against our first-party business by investing in and offering them the very best selling tools we could imagine and build. There are many such tools, including tools that help sellers manage inventory, process payments, track shipments, create reports, and sell across borders - and we're inventing more every year. But of great importanc…
That doesn't say anything definitive either way, does it?
The letter says that 3rd party sellers have been doing just as good as Amazon.
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It is completely reasonable to optimize for the vast majority typing 'mouse' and potentially misspelling it. Also "mousr petronics" shows up as the 1st choice in the autocomplete when typing "mousr". This is probably one of those products that can and should have its own website and sell from there or link directly to Amazon instead.
I don't think it's reasonable to show one thing when the user typed another. There are dozens of product results, there's no reason why one of the proper results wouldn't show up as well. "Results for Mousr ..." "Results for Mouse ..." etc
The 'r' is next to the 'e' in a qwerty keyboard. Quite honestly it's more likely for someone to make a typo and enter "mousr" than your case which is someone searching for a brand name that happens to be "mousr". It seems like the right optimization IMHO. I presume the p90 case for this would be people looking for an actual "mouse."
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#36Shopping on Amazon has become like shopping on Canal Street in NYC (e.g. street lined with shops selling counterfeit goods). You never know what you’re going to get.
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they finally stagnated. the site is still as unusable as when I first used it. Search and categories are complete garbage. The listings that breakdown price (e.g. $/unit or $/Gb or $/ounce) are a inconsistent mess in the same search result, sometimes showing different units for the same product from two sellers! and I still have no idea if a listing will be OK or from a seller worse thab ebay.
"Search and categories are complete garbage." I'm consulting in the pet space, if you search for 'Mousr' which is the name of a very cool pet toy brand that they carry - you get PC mouses (ie 'Mouse'). Not the brand 'Mousr'. So basically their 'spell correct' 'Mousr->Mouse' utterly and completely overrides the notion that the users wanted to in fact input 'Mousr' to get that product. Instead, in order to find the pro…
It is 150 USD toy for cats. i.e. 99.9% people typing mousr are searching for mouse(PC).
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Using the search/filter options on the site is useless now. Most recently I was looking for a countertop hot plate/burner to replace one that finally broke (filament burned out after 15 years). Searching within the Appliances / Cooktops category, it is filled with random apparel like t-shirts and dresses for Most of the sellers and brands have names that look like someone mashed their keyboard. At this point the only…
What? That sounds really strange. Do you have a browser extension messing with the page? You can just use the search from the homepage. Typing "hotplate" gave autocomplete for "hotplate for cooking" which is hundreds of products: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=hotplate+for+cooking Or if you want to browse, the category homepage has all kinds of filters: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=&ref=nb_sb_noss&rh=n%3A3741261
Search and category browsing have different purposes. Search is not a substitute for a decent taxonomy. Unfortunately, MS (start menu) and Amazon seem not to realize that.
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I don't think it's reasonable to show one thing when the user typed another. There are dozens of product results, there's no reason why one of the proper results wouldn't show up as well. "Results for Mousr ..." "Results for Mouse ..." etc
The 'r' is next to the 'e' in a qwerty keyboard. Quite honestly it's more likely for someone to make a typo and enter "mousr" than your case which is someone searching for a brand name that happens to be "mousr". It seems like the right optimization IMHO. I presume the p90 case for this would be people looking for an actual "mouse."
Additionally, there’s a “search for mousr” link directly under the “Showing results for mouse” banner. It’s not as if they make it hard to do the exact match search.
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I don't think it's reasonable to show one thing when the user typed another. There are dozens of product results, there's no reason why one of the proper results wouldn't show up as well. "Results for Mousr ..." "Results for Mouse ..." etc
The 'r' is next to the 'e' in a qwerty keyboard. Quite honestly it's more likely for someone to make a typo and enter "mousr" than your case which is someone searching for a brand name that happens to be "mousr". It seems like the right optimization IMHO. I presume the p90 case for this would be people looking for an actual "mouse."
Why not show both?