Weird Amazon search behavior

[davemchine]

I’ve been having a problem where I search for a product name on Amazon and I don’t get any relevant results. Then I go to Google and search on the exact same product name and an Amazon link pops right up at the top of the list. Has anyone else experienced this?

[anonymouse1]

all the freaking time.

It's because they are selling advertising slots agains search results, so you get crap instead of what you want.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I have been complaining about Bez-azon internal search for at least 7 years. As anonymouse1 mentioned, they let vendors salt internal search results. Five years ago I said I thought they might be doing it to keep people at website.

It used to be the first page of search results for big USB 3 flash drives was at most 50% flash drives.