Re: OT: Search tricks?

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:
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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.
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Idiots.

>
They aren't there to help you find what you want, they are there to sell
you what they get paid for.

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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.