Re: OT: Search tricks?

On 8/21/2024 7:08 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

Has anyone else found a better scheme?  Quoting arguments?  etc.

 Which web search engine are you using?  Google, DuckDuckGo, Brave,
Bing, etc:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines>
Or, are you using the web site's server search feature to look for
products available from a specific web vendor?  I guess that might be
what you mean by an "*etail* site.

Exactly.  I'm going to PICK UP an item, today.  Which store will I drive
to?  Which carries the item?  Which has it IN STOCK?  Where, in the store,
is it located?

If your problem is with the search built into an *etail* web site,
you'll need to disclose the site in question.  They're all different
and there is no universal fix.  I've noticed that providing far more
products than the search should have provided is now standard
procedure for most shopping sites.  Maybe the first few items are
within my search filter, but the rest are "closely related" items that
the operators of the shopping site believe might be of interest.

Hence abandoning the search as soon as it veers away from your
EXPRESSED interest.

Despite the obvious problems resulting from flooding the buyer with
unwanted product offers, sometimes the closely related product
provides something of interest.
 Good luck.

What's equally entertaining is how decoupled the web sites are from their
actual sense of what's on hand.  Do they even TRY to tie their online
inventory data to their actual sales data?  Or, do they have dweebs walk
through the store, periodically, COUNTING items to update the web site's
inventory?