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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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.
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I am not a big Amazon fan and rarely search for books there. But I do buy things from Amazon US that I cannot get in Canada and sometimes from Amazon.ca if there price is right. (much better than shopping local price).
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I find their suggestions annoying, but I perceive them as improving. Are they brainwashing me perhaps
They are flawed of course, and the search is not perfect either. I still find it much better than it was this time last year.
I am afraid that saying audible has a search engine that suits
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better seems very much a strawman to me. Show me several sites with Amazons quantity of inventoried items or even 1/4 and I will think you are giving a less biased opinion.
Helen