Psycho-Babble Administration Thread 283430

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can you make the double double quotes smarter?

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

Re: give amazon a hint

Posted by Dr. Bob on November 25, 2003, at 1:10:45

In reply to can you make the double double quotes smarter?, posted by octopusprime on November 24, 2003, at 21:47:22

> 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.

Did you try the FAQ? :-)

http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#amazon

Bob

Re: give amazon a hint

Posted by octopusprime on November 25, 2003, at 10:08:32

In reply to Re: give amazon a hint, posted by Dr. Bob on November 25, 2003, at 1:10:45

mea culpa :)
i'll try that next time
thanks

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