{"id":8766,"date":"2021-03-20T23:57:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T23:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=8766"},"modified":"2021-03-20T23:57:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T23:57:36","slug":"the-stink-of-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2021\/03\/20\/the-stink-of-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"The stink of the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gawd, Amazon just gets worse and worse and worse at search results. I&#8217;m an expert searcher and it gives me results that are <em>utter<\/em> rubbish. It&#8217;s now almost impossible to get a forward look at what&#8217;s coming or what&#8217;s been published recently in books. Something is very badly wrong with their algorithms, if it isn&#8217;t just down to cynical &#8216;confusion marketing&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the alternative? Hive.co.uk, on sorting for <em>books \/ release dates<\/em>, gives the searcher a better result, though still not perfect and without dates on the results themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gawd, Amazon just gets worse and worse and worse at search results. I&#8217;m an expert searcher and it gives me results that are utter rubbish. It&#8217;s now almost impossible to get a forward look at what&#8217;s coming or what&#8217;s been published recently in books. Something is very badly wrong with their algorithms, if it isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}