Re: OT: Search tricks?

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 01:48:32, Wanderer<dont@emailme.com> wrote:

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 01:20:46 -0700 Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

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.
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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.

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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.

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

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

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They're screwing up the search price low to high feature. You get 10 pages of 10 cent
doodads that have nothing to do with what you looking for peppered with the expensive
featured items. Last time at Amazon, I couldn't find the selection for best fit. It was
just Featured, Low to High and High to Low.
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I wonder if you can get ChatGPT or other AI to help search. I haven't played with any of them,
cause I'm not sure I trust them.

Last year I used ChatGPT to give me a number for a D-Squared PAK fast
recovery diode.  It did and I ordered some.

ChatGPT also warned me that its training data was not up to date which
I appreciated.

This is where I have to be very careful with my search terms just to
get that search engine to understand my question.  That is where AI
comes in handy.  It can do more with my question some times.

Maybe sites like Octopart will eventually incorporate some AI in its
searches ?

boB