Gawd, Amazon just gets worse and worse and worse at search results. I’m an expert searcher and it gives me results that are utter rubbish. It’s now almost impossible to get a forward look at what’s coming or what’s been published recently in books. Something is very badly wrong with their algorithms, if it isn’t just down to cynical ‘confusion marketing’.

What’s the alternative? Hive.co.uk, on sorting for books / release dates, gives the searcher a better result, though still not perfect and without dates on the results themselves.