[aa_memon]

Yes, and I see this phenomenon everywhere now. They completely ignore the explicit instructions we are giving and prioritize their “suggestions” instead. Facebook, Twitter with their default timeline views. On Twitch’s TV app it used to be one click from the main page to continue watching a video now it’s 5 clicks because they replace with suggested channels, recommended blah blah.

One can go blue in the face “quoting” terms on Amazon search but they’ll just show whatever they want anyways completely ignoring the exact terms entered. I’d prefer them to say “we couldn’t find any results for you” than to give me pages of useless results instead.

[userbinator]

They completely ignore the explicit instructions we are giving and prioritize their “suggestions” instead.

I suspect it's deliberate. They're more interested in giving you what they want and trying to coerce you into that direction. I absolutely abhor it.

[trilbyglens]

These types of searches are built for normie users who are likely to not search for exactly one thing, and would find a relevant result good enough. Not to absolve conflicts of interest, but this is simply what you get with giant mainstream monolithic products like Google or Amazon. They optimize for the normal distribution.

[napier]

Partly deliberate revenue maxxing, partly SEO infosphere pollution, and partly the underlying technical elements of poorly (for the user) implemented embeddings, that have now largely replaced keyword based search. Tldr of the latter mechanism is multiple words share the same vector space representation so you often don't get what you want, but always you get what the model suggests you need. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_embedding