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2009

Amazon - Constrained Search vs. Random Results

The way to find needles in the immense haystack of Amazon.com is through constrained search. Amazon's search function, like most others, claims to use a logical AND operator on keywords. That is search results for "Amazon Warriors," for example, should contain both "Amazon" AND "Warriors." In fact, you will find that, all things being equal -- "Amazon" AND "Warriors" results will appear higher than "Amazon" OR "Warriors" results. You need to "drill down" through the thousands of Amazon Categories to find the results that meet your criteria. I could go on and on (there really are thousands of categories) but I think this small sample will illustrate how different your results can be for a single search term

The Whole Ed Cata-Blog

There are over 75 million pages at Amazon.com, and the major search engines don't index them nearly as well as you might think. My blog is your guide to the Amazon backwaters. This work is supported solely by Amazon commissions.

2006

Feed of MSN Search's TOP 10 Catalog pages by topic

MSN Search makes results available as feeds, which makes it easy to aggregate related "topic" pages from our bookstore, regardless of their postion in Amazon's hierarchy. Makes browsing faster and searching smarter. (BETA)

Fast, Focussed, Friendly Amazon Category Searches from The Whole Ed Mall

Our Amazon associate bookstore makes it easy to fined the books you really want without "drilling down" through Amazon's convoluted browse categories. Go staright to the topic you're interested in and browse or search from there, Useful and user-friendly. Recommended.

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