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Originally Posted by ReadingManiac
Amazon searches have gone downhill in recent years. Trying to find a match to an exact title just isn't possible.
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FWIW--GoodReads is even worse.
I suspect that almost all companies (except, for example, Google, of course), have to have their search engines purchased "out of house," not built by their IT guys. If that is the case, the more that the company pays, the better their search engine is likely going to be. It's like a person buying a house or a car--you basically get what you pay for.
I, for one, have not noticed Amazon's search engine getting worse, and I've been a customer since the days in the late 1990's, when Amazon was just a bookstore. The one exception is the sorting/filtering by price feature. It definitely seems to have gotten worse--the results of a search by price, now, seem almost to have no bearing on what you ask their search engine to do.