It’s been a long time since I worked on e-commerce but what you say makes no sense. Search is hard. Humans are unreliable. Data quality is shit, especially if you allow third party participation. It’s hard enough to do it without shenanigans.
they literally do things like remove search operators. you can’t even search the names of items. you cant do a - or a “” or whatever on amazon.com. you used to be able to. there are a lot fewer on google than there used to be too; they removed them a long-ass time ago, but the shit I learned about advanced search in high school no longer exists. it’s more profitable to just give you the slop they want you to have.
It’s been a long time since I worked on e-commerce but what you say makes no sense. Search is hard. Humans are unreliable. Data quality is shit, especially if you allow third party participation. It’s hard enough to do it without shenanigans.
they literally do things like remove search operators. you can’t even search the names of items. you cant do a - or a “” or whatever on amazon.com. you used to be able to. there are a lot fewer on google than there used to be too; they removed them a long-ass time ago, but the shit I learned about advanced search in high school no longer exists. it’s more profitable to just give you the slop they want you to have.