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From: Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
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Subject: Re: OT: Search tricks?
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:30:09 -0700
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On 8/21/2024 1:28 PM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/21/24 21:57, Don Y wrote:
>>> Is there some secret handshake to coerce *etail* sites to pay closer
>>> attention
>>> to your search criteria?  It seems like they produce results that match ANY
>>> of your terms instead of ALL.  [...]
>>
>> I tried that. They'll take the intended logical operator as yet
>> another search term and show you *more* undesired results.
>>
>> Idiots.
> 
> They aren't there to help you find what you want, they are there to sell
> you what they get paid for.

But, if they can't show you what you want, then you likely won't BUY!

E.g., I searched for a stainless steel wallplate.
Do you really think I will SETTLE for a plastic/nylon one?  If so, why
did I bother typing all of that extra text instead of just saying "wall plate"

ISTM that the dweeb writing the search algorithm would *likely* order results
based on number of terms matched (otherwise, search becomes incredibly
unproductive... as any qualifiers would match ANYTHING that happened to
also use those qualifiers:  "red ball" would match "red lipstick", "red chalk",
"red onion", etc.)

If that is indeed the case, then one should look for the first result that
doesn't match all of your criteria and figure everything past that is just
noise...