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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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:
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?
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Yea, well I can pull up all SF books and sit there and page through all 88,411 books (well actually I can't I think they limit it to 400 pages). Technically every single Roger Zelazny kindle book should be in the list somewhere. It's just not a very useful. Apparently you seem to think that just because they are all buried in there somewhere, there is not issue.
If your point is that Amazon's search engine doesn't stink as badly as Kobo's, then guess what, I agree with you. That doesn't make Amazon's search engine any less flawed, though. When I search from Roger Zelazny books, I expect to find Roger Zelazny books, not Roger Zelazny plus whatever else books Amazon want's push at me. When I go to the author page, then I expect to see _all_ the ebooks they have for sell by that author. This isn't rocket science. You just need good quality control (which I have read is a major issue for Amazon and it's search engine) and you need to care about it, which rather obviously neither you nor Amazon does.