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Originally Posted by shalym
You say that you know this for certain, but I just did a search on "maria schneider" and once I scrolled past the music CDs on the first page of results, I started seeing your books. I'm not sure why you would think that the order of the search results changing has anything to do with Kindle Unlimited, or why you would think that this is anything other than, maybe, people buying more jazz music than books. It's unfortunate that you happen to share a name with a popular musician, but it's certainly not Amazon's fault in any way. Of course the first results in a general search are going to be the bestsellers. How else should they do the sort?
Shari
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I don't think it has anything do to with KU--I was merely mentioning that I think things have changed in the search function and they are not as "good" for me personally. The thing that changed is that my author page no longer shows up under a search of Maria Schneider (My books always did and under a general search, I used to be mixed in with the jazz artist rather than at the end--this is not an issue for me, just something I noted). I'm thrilled to share my name with her. She has grown more popular over the years and I'm actually more likely to benefit from the association.
My author page no longer shows up even when you select "Books" and Maria Schneider as the search. Someone else's author page does. This is new, but it's been this way for months. Their search function has changed. When I asked about getting my author page/link back in the search list I was told it was not something they would even discuss.
Again, I'm not blaming anyone or angry, but it changed. I used to be more prominent (whether due to sales or other changes made to the search engines). My results were more mixed in with the jazz artist. My author page used to show up in there. Perhaps the change is just that another Maria Schneider showed up on the scene (although her book is out of print so I think she's been around for a while).
These are little things that indicate the possibility that Amazon is not pushing ebooks (or indies?) as much/frequently as they used to. But it's anecdotal/clue not irrefutable proof.
As another example, when I used to search on my name, Karen Cantwell's books showed up. Those no longer show up (I'm not sure why the DID in the past). I think Amazon's search engine has been tweaked. For whatever reason.