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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
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.
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In Amazon's case, I believe publishers are paying for top status. Search on a title and get pages of unrelated stuff in a different genre with none of the search words involved because a publisher wants to sell me Romance. Gits.