I AM SO OLD THAT I REMEMBER WHEN SEARCH ENGINES REALLY WORKED!

[Stimw]

No matter how specific I am in my searches always come up with items totally unrelated.
Looked on ebay today for "pump motor start switch" came up with auto starters and wanting to know what vehicle! ???
Also checked "water pump motor start switch" , same thing.
It seems to be on most online stores.
On Lowe's I was looking for "laminate flooring" it comes up with flooring and also patio furniture.
I guess the basement dwelling programmers don't know the difference!

 

[Wagtail]

Or, time has marched on and there are now so many products/objects/things on the intertubes that your search needs to be more specific.

I've learnt to research the product first, especially as what you may know as a 'dohicky' is actually a 'thingamabob'. For example; North America = "J-Cloth", here in Aus/NZ = "CHUX". It's the exact same thing.

I've also found that, once I've found/defined what I want, I can get it for less from the source as opposed to eBay. This year, eBay's cut of the the final sales price is 10%.

 

[/pine]

Database queries are as efficient as their owners want them to be...
By searching for something they already know you are in the market to purchase a particular product etc...
...Why not take the opportunity to show you something else that their research say you might also be interested in?

Not saying all databases are that devious...they may just have had lazy programmers...!

 

[BHD]

No matter how specific I am in my searches always come up with items totally unrelated.
Looked on ebay today for "pump motor start switch" came up with auto starters and wanting to know what vehicle! ???
Also checked "water pump motor start switch" , same thing.
It seems to be on most online stores.
On Lowe's I was looking for "laminate flooring" it comes up with flooring and also patio furniture.
I guess the basement dwelling programmers don't know the difference!

could you be looking for

a pressure switch for a well?

or a float switch, or square D float switch

because I have no idea what you mean by a ""pump motor start switch",, I would think by that statement it would be a "start switch for a single phase motor that runs a pump, that is internal in the motor that kicks it from the start windings to the run windings,


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and if you really want to see a messed up search page try Home depots,

 

[orezok]

Do you put your search string in quotes? That sometimes minimizes the extraneous stuff.

 

[bunyip]

When my daughter was doing vet science one assignment was determining the sex of a foal before birth, she made the mistake of putting in sex/horses and got several hundred pages in return none of which were veterinary related......

 

[Jstpssng]

I had to click on this just to make sure that I wasn't the OP. Earlier tonight I searched for "Maine Motorist killed by rock", and may as well have asked if the moon is green cheese.
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Actually the latter produced pretty boring results.

 

[/pine]

Anyone remember when "search engines" did not have politically motivated agendas???
If you do you are remembering using a beta version...!

 

[Industrial Toys]

The Internet is all commerce driven.

And nothing generally speaking for the "Individual". It's all about marketing in broad strokes.

If you searched for a factory pink Kubota tractor, some piece of sheit website would come back saying "find factory pink kubota tractors at POS.com, just to get you to come to their site. Irritating!

 

[/pine]

The Internet is all commerce driven.

And nothing generally speaking for the "Individual". It's all about marketing in broad strokes.

If you searched for a factory pink Kubota tractor, some piece of sheit website would come back saying "find factory pink kubota tractors at POS.com, just to get you to come to their site. Irritating!

I would only give your first statement in the cited post a 40% thumbs up...I would say that the Internet is primarily "information driven"...The value of that information is to be discerned by the user...

IMO..the more of said information that is commerce driven/financed...the more it should be scrutinized...