[gcb]

It's only bad because they are lazy greedy slobs.

It's the easiest problem to solve. Just remove bad categorization.

Open Amazon, click any category. Let's say hdmi cables. What do you see? Probably televisions, screws, microwave ovens, inflatable sex dolls, anything!

They let bad Sellers fill their categories with crap. Now you can't search.

And that's some kind of difficult problem to solve? Give me a break.

[woj]

Compare to google:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=shop&q=ipod&...

Equally bad results in my opinion. I guess they are lazy greedy slobs too.

[freehunter]

What really gets me is when I'm on a site (Newegg does it too) and I search for, let's say, 4GB DDR3 1333. What comes back in the results? A $3000 PC that has two sticks of the RAM I'm searching for. That's not RAM. That's a product featuring that RAM. Or more to your point, search for HDMI and you get TVs and video cards that have HDMI ports on them. If I wanted to look for TVs, I would have said TV.

[ajb]

That's what I thought the article would say, too!

Actually, it's complaining that the items are not even sorted correctly.

[cdcarter]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_n_4?rh=n%3A172282%...

Oh yea?

[rhizome]

Sort by price "high to low" and tell us if you see anything that doesn't look like an HDMI cable.

[gcb]

Sorting by most sold/popular is ok on the fist items because other ppl looked for the actual stuff and bought it.

but even that doesn't help on less popular categories