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by DanBC 4038 days ago
...and one of the reason people search Google is because searching Amazon is weirdly and totally broken.

I know Amazon is chock full of people who know what they're doing so it's always surprising that the search is so bad.

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what? I've never ever ever had an issue with amazon search, can you explain what you mean?
Search for [Pure One Mini] (pure is the manufacturer, one mini is the product name, of a DABS portable radio.) you get a bunch of results that just aren't relevant. You get accessories for this device, you get accessories for other devices from this manufacturer, you get other devices from this manufacturer, you get devices and accessories from other manufacturers. You have to use the side bar to restrict the products to those from Pure. But you still get all the Pure product line, and there's no way to further restrict the selection.

Back when people were still selling the Sansa Fuze: Search for eg [sansa fuze 8GB] then sort by price. You get dozens of pages of cases, then leads, then chargers for the sansa fuze. And Amazon's next page only allows you to advance by single pages, you can't jump forward by 5 pages at a time.

Search for [microwave oven], chose a department, and search by price, and you'll get a billion things that can be used with a microwave oven (timers, cookware, books) and then actual microwave ovens. You have to do further refinement using the side bar.

Sansa Fuze

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3D...

The top 3 results, in order,

- 4 GB sansa Fuze player

- sansa Fuze player clip

- 8 GB sansa Fuze player

Here's a search that finds the portable radio using the search terms "pure one mini portable radio"

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...

and a search for "microwave" http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

All 3 searches have the relevant items at the top.

I'm not saying Amazon search is perfect, but you know, sometimes I have to modify my search in order to find what I want on google too.

Huh, what? Amazon search works great.