2026-07-30 19:52 UTC
@n8@mastodon.social I can't remember the last time an in-site search system in the retail world worked well to target what I was looking for instead of all what they hoped to sell me. It was probably a couple decades ago.
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@n8@mastodon.social 2026-07-31 06:58
@alerque@mastodon.social Actually eBay has really good complex-query support. It does also provide "alternative match" results, but it shunts them off into a separate output that you have to click on (unless your query returns zero hits, in which case it still tells you that, but also shows you variants, still labelled as "similar search terms" etc.) I think that's because the site relies on un-QCed user descriptions, of course. Especially in the early days. Spelling is hard ... and varies regionally.