Posted by octopusprime on November 24, 2003, at 21:47:22
hi dr. bob.
just want to register some feedback on the double-double quotes feature.
i just tried to link to bukowski's books, named "women" and "hollywood" respectively, in the books forum. i cruised through the first 50 links before giving up on linking to these books.
try the double-double-quotes feature on these terms and check the results. many of the first 50 titles returned did not have "women" or "hollywood" in the titles, and i was getting books that were all over the map. no bukowski books showed up, so i quit looking.
i would like to give amazon a hint that i was looking for a book by bukowski on your page, but i can't do that.
anyway if you're putting any work into the feature, may i suggest the following:
if a large set of books is returned, maybe you can add a box on the link submit form, something like "add another search term", where a person could type the author's name and maybe get some results that are more relevant.just trying to keep the amazon referral money trickling in! :p
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