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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Just to recap, a search for Roger Zelazny returns 50 hits, of which quite a few have nothing to do with Roger Zelazny. Just because one of the hits is a link to the author's page doesn't make that fact go magically away, no matter how much you want that to be true.
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The fact that a big chunk of what you were supposedly looking for could be found by following the first two links returned by the search doesn't magically get erased just because you want to focus on the later, irrelevant links that you have little need to look at or follow. No matter how much you want it to be true.
How is it not helpful/productive that the top links in the search results are either 1) direct links to that author's works, or 2) a link to that author's page which
includes direct links to many of the author's works sold at that store? Unless fairly easily finding lots of the author's books you were searching for at that store wasn't the goal?
Just for purposes of comparing and contrasting, when I type Roger Zelazny into Kobo's search engine, the result I immediately get is:
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1 - 12 of 20 results for “steven brust”
Search instead for: roger zelazny
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When I then follow that suggested roger zelazny link (which curiously looks exactly like what I typed in the first place), I get: 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roger zelazny”. The first is a Roger Zelazny book, the second is a Steven Brust & Roger Zelazny collaboration, and the remaining eight links have no connection to Roger Zelazny
at all.
So again I ask: how is this an "Amazon agenda" to push books they WANT us to buy?