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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
And I'm sorry you DON'T like it, but don't pretend your dislikes (or inability to create effective search criteria) are universal issues or agendas.
And again, which of the many other search/recommendation engines out there DO meet your exacting specifications? Chief among which seems to be returning only authors and titles that you HAVE heard of?
Also ... funny how someone who hates always being accused of being an Apple Fanboy is so quick to assign a similar label to anyone who doesn't dislike the same things you do about Amazon.
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Once again you are throwing out that strawman. I'm not claiming that there is some perfect search engine. I'm saying that Amazon is very much flawed. If you don't see doing a simple author search and pulling back a bunch of books with zero relationship to the search is a problem, then I suspect you will never admit any issues with Amazon.
One of Amazon's problem is that a lot of people trying to make some quick money have learned how to scam Amazon's ebook system. I suspect that the other part of the problem is that Amazon, like you, doesn't consider getting a bunch of false positives a big deal. I also suspect that most people tend to look for whatever is popular, or for specific books, rather than browse for books.
Audible actually has a very good search engine and is much for flexible than Amazon (yes, I know Amazon bought Audible). One thing that Amazon could do that would make things much better is allow the user to select the number of items per page, like Audible does.