Shopping website search is terrible - eviltoast

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?

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Many shopping sites are based on woocommerce, which is an ugly hack transforming a blogging platform in a store.

    Like if you take a school and made it a supermarket with all the goods scattered on the desks in the classrooms.

    Sucks at performance and sucks at search.