Point being, I still remember my first media center 101 on boolean searching, and my early years with search engines. Generally, when searching an unknown datastore, I like unrefined queries and manually perusing the data to get the lay of it by landmarking pages. They usually just want a starting set, then let them flip pages, or refine their query. Most people don't think in query languages for getting them all the way to where they are looking. I often call UX people on this when they want to do away with pagination and go to search bars. It's been a hell of an information transmission medium for centuries, and comes loaded with haptic shortcuts to aid recall and indexing. >Now your only option is a web page with embedded pictures which may as well be a paper encyclopedia entryĭon't knock encyclopedias/dead tree layouts. I swear, walmart must have amazon moles, or is getting paid off / bribed by amazon, because a clown could do better against them. I'm not paying new pricing for dirty clothes, amazon!Įspecally shoes, socks, underwear (wtf?!). Obviously, some sellers are motivated to lie with their tags, but this isn't the only reason this isn't happening.Īdd to this that most listings have no size chart, no fabric info, no origin location, or even conflicting info, and holy pita.ĮG, I am not polyester friendly, yet some listings say things like 100% polyester, then the very next line, 95% cotton, 5% spandex.Īll of this could be improved with more standardized listings controls and forms for sellers, and amazon has the cash and has had years to do it, too.Īnd lately, 20% of the stuff I order comes opened, used, even dirty. Well, if I am in the shirt category, search as above, but with a unique thing like turtleneck, I get a boatload of responses without any turtlenecks. So, looking for a shirt I want, from brand x, has 1/2 the page filled with sponsored garbage, and often the rest with 7 colours of the exact same shirt, individually show.Īdd to this, that search terms seem to be mild suggestions? Worse, lately, they now show different options as individual search results. They have an option for only brand y, yet sponsored results are immune to this. Web Search itself might be the worst, only giving the most shallow corporate results, I'm not surprised it feels like there are few personal website when our index to the internet is so polluted.Īmazon seems to get worse and worse by the day.Īll their idiotic sponsored results make finding things impossible.įor example, if I try to search for x, maybe I want to only see x from brand y. There's no clear answer like "we don't carry that item" instead the search box vomits back all kinds of misinformation. But earlier this year I could have snapped my keyboard in half trying to find a specific piece of hardware on the Lowes/Home Depot/Amazon website. Shopping is ok on smaller sites, where inventory is static and items are either in stock or not. And obviously social media where information is ephemeral and you only need to see what's happening right now. They have the metadata, why can't I browse by year or filter by director or actors, or any arbitrary combination of the available data?Īnd this is the same for news sites, where there should be a 20+ year history of articles but I can't browse it.
no." until by chance something looks interesting. Every time I use Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, etc I feel at the mercy of the website as it shows me rocks one by one and I shake my virtual head "no. Now your only option is a web page with embedded pictures which may as well be a paper encyclopedia entry, or a video that may or may not offer you any useful way to navigate it aside from jumping around at random and most certainly doesn't give you rich annotations throughout. A page on, say, Lewis and Clark would offer you an audio introduction, an interactive map that brought up text journal entries for clickable points of interest, and relevant pictures.
Twenty years ago it was common for material to be presented in a way that integrated text, sound, pictures, and video together in an easily navigable way. Multimedia is also a shadow of what it once was. Increased reliance on CDNs and cross-site content has simultaneously made web pages expire faster than ever and made them harder to archive. Content is either in an endless scroll or it's only accessible through a search box and you have absolutely no idea whether the site doesn't have the content you wanted or if you just failed to use the correct terms.
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