Because customers don't need to easily filter away some stuff from their searches

Sacrilege! You broke the template, third and fourth slide should be the same :)

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I shall commit sudoku to atone for my sin

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- Repent ye sinner and post three socially awkward socially awesome penguins, NOT one thing other thing penguin and ye shall be redeemed!
  
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- Can you also atone for my sins while you're at it? Thanks.
  
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- We talking sudo rm-rf /* sudoku here or the kind that you'd find in the newspaper?
  
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- Memes are art and this works
  
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Aliexpress search is just the worst in that regard. "Hey I want to buy microchip X123457" - "Sure, here are some other totally different chips and a few iPhone cases for you".

Without site:aliexpress.com and search engines I would never find anything on there.

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Not to mention that it changes the actual results if you decide to use any of its shitty filters or even order by price. Like, if your search result had 4 pages and you order by price, suddenly it's now 2 pages. My bet is shady assholery to fuck with sellers that aren't paying enough, much like Amazon

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The category filters of electronics distributors used to be good (some still are). But then they started letting business people categorize the products, and now finding stuff without having a part number is basically a lottery.

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hell, even with a part number, you still have to sort through a bunch of irrelevant stuff. I swear they must just "select all" when assigning tags to phone cases and stuff.

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- Fuck phone cases and bad search. I just got the Sony Xperia 10 V. The whole Sony Line is just changing the number to 1, 5, or 10, and the Roman numeral from I to V (and growing).
  
  Good luck finding anything. It literally took me hours (including advanced Google Fu) to find out that the style of case I want doesn't exist for my model. (But the 10 IV has it.)
  
  Is there a site that categorizes cases by exact model? I feel like it shouldn't be this hard.
  
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Swear they've made search worse everywhere to keep us on aites longer.

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Go to Google and search the site from orbit.

First few results are keyword sponsor ads from the same site taking you to their front page instead of what you searched for.

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Good luck sorting by price

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Still works on eBay for now, the one thing they haven't broken.

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eBay really has one of the best search engines around, IMO.

Once you know how to use parenthesis, quotes, and minus, you can build very precise queries.

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- Boolean search is better than natural language search, once you know how to use it
  
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Meme format is wrong. I do not accept this meme.

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👊Hold up, buddy! 👊🤔Spotted your Gru's Plan meme 🤔👉, but quick tip: ✌️Keep the text in the last two panels the same for that slick punchline! ✌️😂Consistency is the key to meme magic. 🗝️👌Give it a shot, and you'll nail it! 👍😄

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I don't get the downvotes. You expressed that it differs from the usual meme formula but it's very obvious that you aren't serious. And it's kinda funny reading the text whilst imagining those bullshit emojis. (At least I hope that the emojis weren't serious)

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- yeah this kind of sarcastic post was a pretty common trope back in the day on r/copypasta, so I wanted to bring some of that back
  
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I don't think I've ever added the ability to filter via the text field on any search system I've built. Normally there's checkboxes and categories though

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Which are often lacking. If I want to search for everything except brand X, I have to check the box for every other brand, which is a hassle. If I'm looking for "pirate costume" and I don't want anything related to One Piece, there's no checkboxes, or anything, to help me.

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You should really implement the basics, "quotes" for exact match and *star as wildcard

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I wonder how many people even know that the hyphen works on google.

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- Not even the Google search team. You can no longer negate search terms in Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo. Any suggestions for a better search engine?
  
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