Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Well played Amazon, Well played indeed!

I had made a mental note as to the release date of Secret Warriors Volume 2 so I could snap it up in a timely fashion. Well Amazon.com is generally the cheapest place for such things, certianly cheaper than buying it from a brick and mortar store anyway. So over the weekend I decided to go ahead and purchase it (along with a couple of novels to bring my total $ value into the 'free shipping' range).

To that end, I fired up my browser, navigated to Amazon.com and typed "Secret Warriors Vol 2" into the handy little search bar. The following are the genuine results I was presented with, no editing of the image has been done, other than cropping and blanking out my account name:


Now, lets take a look at these results.
  1. This is the item I was looking for "Secret Warriors, Vol 2"
  2. Has the term "Vol 2" in it and is related to my search in terms of genre and publisher, fair game.
  3. Unrelated to what I wanted, but has the word "Warriors" in it so I guess I can't argue the point.
  4. Now here is where things get interesting. "10 Erotic Films Volume 1"... Try as I might, I simply cannot see how this relates to the search terms I entered.
Now I should point out that while I am not entirely opposed to the erotic movie collection, I do still have to ask why Amazon felt the need to add it to this particular query. One of these things is not like the others, so to speak. Anyway I just found it highly amusing, it brightened up an otherwise mundane Sunday, and so I figured it was worth sharing.

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