{"id":19599,"date":"2017-07-27T07:23:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T06:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=19599"},"modified":"2017-07-27T07:23:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T06:23:18","slug":"lost-in-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/07\/27\/lost-in-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Amazon UK is now defaulting to a really dumb wide-spectrum search, when one clicks on the author-name link on a book page.  For instance, a click-search for the Tolkien scholar J. S. Ryan plunges one into quack-pot &#8216;health cure&#8217; books and trash sci-fi trilogies by similarly-named authors.  It&#8217;s done on the basis of &#8216;confusion marketing&#8217; I guess.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2017\/07\/ryan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2017\/07\/ryan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"137\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2017\/07\/med.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2017\/07\/med.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19601\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The spectrum gets extremely wide half way down the results page, when it seems that <em>any<\/em> author with &#8220;J. S.&#8221; in the name is being shovelled in.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. version of Amazon appears to have the same name-authority problem on search.  For now, one can instead manually paste-search for &#8220;J. S. Ryan&#8221;, which does give correct results.  But that&#8217;s not going to be much use for someone with a less distinctive name.<\/p>\n<p>This new problem comes on top of Amazon&#8217;s foul new practice of lumping all book reviews for a book title under <em>all<\/em> editions of that book.  Thus, for instance, one arrives at the page for a critical edition of a classic work but reads a peeved review of a cheap shovel-ware reprint ebook of the same title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see that Amazon UK is now defaulting to a really dumb wide-spectrum search, when one clicks on the author-name &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2017\/07\/27\/lost-in-the-amazon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-general-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}