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Last updated on July 5th, 2024 at 11:39 am
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I had an interesting experience recently while I was shopping at Amazon. I found an unexpected product pop-up in my search feed.
This may not always be a usual occurrence for many shoppers but I can say this much wording of your search may cause this to happen.
Phrasing/wording your search matters
Well, I learned that the way I phrase or word search matters. Granted if you are looking for a specific item you need to add details. Or you may search by type of product.
This is all fine but sometimes you might have a surprise in your search feed. This may be funny to some but others, may not like it.
I found it funny.
I learned my lesson
I happened to be looking for some O-rings for a windchime I made. Well, I was searching a few pages when I suddenly scroll down and see a product that is completely out of place.
I had a one of these things is not like the other moments. I did a double-take and laughed. Thankfully the product was a few pages into search and set towards the bottom of the list.
What did I find? Well, I’ll show you.
Smack dab in between a windchime and supplies list there was a listing for an O-ring men’s thong. I’m not a prude by any means but still thought it was an oddly placed product.
I’m also happy I didn’t find any other type of O-ring products such as cock rings or something else.
So it’s surface to say I need to check my wording when searching Amazon.
Is this common?
I don’t know if it is. I’ve never had it happen until the other day. I wasn’t really surprised as I said because I was specifically looking for an O-ring. So I can see how Amazon’s algorithm would add it to a search list.
