Pretty much every major shopping website has terrible search functionality.
I usually want something very specific, for example 60w dimmable e12 frosted warm led bulb
. I have not found a single shopping website that won’t show me results without many of these terms in the description. I don’t want to see listings that say 40w
and don’t say 60w
anywhere, and it isn’t hard to filter them out!
Are these shopping websites bad on purpose? What’s in it for them?
Better yet, there’s sites that have filters you can set. So you set the wattage filter to 60w and then…. no fucking results. But if you clear the filter, there’s lots of results, because it turns out their entire inventory has a wattage of “n/a”.
It adds insult to injury, since it shows that they expect that some people will want to apply those filters, but then they don’t care enough to make the filters work. They just waste even more of my time by creating the false impression that they have made a tool that does what I want.