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From: Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: OT: Search tricks?
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 01:20:46 -0700
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On 8/22/2024 12:51 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> 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!
> [...]
> 
> That's not how the search engines get paid.  They get paid for the
> adverts they show you, not for whether you buy anything from those
> adverts.  If the advertiser finds only a very few of his 'hits' result
> in sales, he will blame the advertisment or the product, not the search
> engine.
> 
> It's all back-to-front because it is driven from the advertising end,
> not from the searchers' end.

That may be true of "Internet" search engines (Google, DuckDuckGo, etc.)

But, an etailer's site sells THEIR products, not items "advertised"
for other vendors.