- From: Joe Parker <css@soiduts.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:19:53 -0800
- To: "'Isofarro'" <w3evangelism@faqportal.uklinux.net>, "'wai-ig list'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
>I would expect to get the same search results no matter which front-end >I used (since Amazon is largely a database driven website), but this >seems not to be the case. It looks like the search algorithm used by both the graphical Amazon and the 'access' Amazon are exactly the same. A search for "Accessibility" on either brings back two sets of results: a set of three 'Most Popular Results' as well as a full set of 181 results for the keyword. You can see this on the graphical Amazon by clicking "See all 181 results" next to "Books:" after running your initial search. The page you're taken to will show 3 "Most popular results for Accessibility" (which match the first 3 you see on Amazon.com/access) and below that a full indexed list of the 181 results. This list of 181 is the same you see (in the same order) when you click "More results" on the first Amazon.com/access results page. So the only difference is that on the graphical side, the first page you see (the one that shows matches in a variety of categories) shows the top 3 results of the full list of 181, not the Most Popular Results. Once you focus your search within a category, it's exactly the same. You can see this by changing the setting of the category dropdown selection from "All Products" to "Books" on both sites before typing in "Accessibility" - you'll get the same results.
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