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0 pointschankstein382mo ago0 comments

Tangent, I was searching for 3mm spherical magnets last night and literally every retailer's search is total garbage and delivered any kind of magnet you can imagine while occasionally sprinkling in things that were vaguely related to "3mm spherical magnets"

I don't understand how it's useful to anyone, even the companies. I just leave without buying things so why would their searches not just search for the specific thing that I ask for?

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apercu2mo ago

I haven't ever figured out why search is so hard for so many websites, including some that I've worked on. Even using third parties (like Keyoti) I've had trouble. In one case I solved a lot of issues with Elastic, but it's sort of overkill for 90% of website use cases.

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0 pointschankstein382mo ago0 comments

I don't understand how it's useful to anyone, even the companies. I just leave without buying things so why would their searches not just search for the specific thing that I ask for?

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apercu2mo ago

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