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Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:41:27 +0100, tim... wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Jethro_uk wrote:
Funny how we are supposedly able to grade millions of students with an
"algorithm" and yet can't appear to devise an even halfway decent
search feature for online stores. By which I mean one that when you
search for (say) an SSD drive, doesn't return a shed load of SSD
holders that somehow manage to remain in the search at £4.99 when you
set the price range to £50-100 (looks at Amazon). Mysteriously though,
you can almost always sort by colour.

eBay also has the added fun of trying to exclude China-shipped items.


The Ebay search option is the worst I ever use. But not helped by
sellers putting 'not XXX' in their description so their product appears
in your search for XXX.

which is the exact reason for them doing it

(usually in some hidden meta data)

I've also noticed on LinkedIn a lot of MLM spivs have twigged that they
can prefix their scams with "Work from home" or "remote" to appear in all
listings.

The inablity of LinkedIn to deal with such incidents has been noted ...

Out of interest, have you ever got any work from LinkedIn? I joined it
early on and never ever did. So rather pointless here.

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