I’m not even mad. Clicking on ‘tales from the fermi paradoon’ just takes me to the book anyway as my first search result. I just wanna know why Amazon Search seems to think that people are using only-sorta words to look for my stuff.
#commissionearned
Huh.
There’s a story seed in there somewhere….
Apparently it’s a family name, and there was a “Helena-girl from Paradoon” book in the “Chronicles of Gigania series”. No, I had not heard of either until this very moment.
So if the series is also available on Amazon, it could be in its database as an active search term.
Though you showed up first in a duckduckgo search, so you have that going for you, which is nice.
Amazon searches have been increasingly pointless for years now.
It’s literally better to use Google to search Amazon than Amazon’s search… for specific technical items.
Not exactly your point, but… it’s pretty terrible.
Mew
Amazon search for books seems to be designed to show you lots of stuff you might also be interested in; whether you get what you were looking for is a matter of luck.
I actually find it easier to search on goodreads.com — Amazon own it now, but they have left its search facility alone (so far).
I’m wondering if they’ve mucked with their search weighting to favor words that produce more definite matches over words that produce more matches. Might even be as simple as a very few matches with one, very high confidence match producing a better ‘score’ than a more normal word that would have a lot of good matches combined with a lot of bad ones.
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That is, ‘paradoon’ doesn’t produce many hits on Amazon, but the first is more or less what you’d have to be after if that was your search criterion. ‘Paradox’, being a normal-ish word, would turn up many, many hits by itself, including, undoubtedly, a lot of garbage.