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anyone who uses Amazon to get movies...does this annoy you?


I've been a customer of Amazon's now for over ten years at least, and the following is something I've noticed they've started doing in the last couple of years, and I find it really annoying.

It used to be, whenever I'd go onto Amazon, select the Movies and TV dropdown, and type in a movie title (and I'm talking a specific and unusual movie title, too, not some generic title that might have 5 or 10 different releases with the same name), Amazon would display results STARTING with that specific title, and what followed would either be titles similar to it in name or subject matter.

Now, however, it seems Amazon is avoiding displaying results of the film I'm looking for, either by shoving the actual specific title match to a low spot in my results list, or sometimes even avoiding displaying it all. This practice used to be prevalent when I knew a movie was only on VHS, but lately (in the last year or so), they seem to be doing it with DVDs too.

Sometimes the only way I can actually find the film I'm looking for is to type not just the title into the search box, but also a performer, or a year of release, or some kind of additional information. That might get the correct display, but even then it may not happen on the first try; I might have to do it with different information before I find what I'm looking for.

I consider this to not only be a frustrating practice that Amazon has adopted now, but also an insidious one, too, because they are purposefully subjecting us--the potential customer--to a waste of time while we wade through their listings searching for what we are specifically looking for.



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Can you provide an example? I haven't been able to replicate your issue.

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Try this film title, "The Third Solution". There is only one film in existence with this title (according to IMDB), but the only way I can get a result for it is if I type "The Third Solution Treat Williams"

That's the most recent example I can think of off the top of my head. It's happened too with other titles and won't give results without being more specific in the search.





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I see. Yeah, searching for it puts it 23rd on my list of results, well into the second page. It doesn't come across as some shady attempt to sell you something else, though; I think the search engine simply considers that the movie is so obscure, you're probably looking for something else, especially since two of those three words in the title are extremely common in its library of video titles.

If I put the title in quotes--which is something I thought most of us internet users would be accustomed to doing if searching for an exact phrase--the movie comes up as the only result.

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I do quotes when i use Google, but I've never had to do it on Amazon in the past--it's only recently that the exact title isn't displaying when the whole title is entered in the Movie/TV search box, that's why I'm annoyed.



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It might help narrow the search by selecting the title with the format (DVD) to the right of it...and also, to narrow the search, before you search for the title, select Movies & TV to the left of the search tab...but maybe it won't help.

I find it annoying that I've been searching for the movie Pink Floyd-The Wall on blu-ray, Amazon actually says it's on blu-ray according to its search options, and then it appears only on DVD and as the album. Maybe it's a "coming soon" item on Amazon, so Amazon geared up its server for the eventual availability, but obviously studios haven't produced and released it on blu-ray yet.

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