Odd Amazon Search Not Working.

None of the Search functions on Amazon seem to be working.

Tried to search Pratchett’s stuff–NG.

Tried War Of The Worlds -NG.

No results no matter what I enter.

Very odd… :confused:

I just searched all of Amazon for “war of the worlds” without quotes, came up with a load of hits. Maybe it was temporarily malfunctioning.

"Terry Pratchett":

DVD (2)
Video (2)
zShops (275)
Auctions (17)

"War of the Worlds":

Computer & Video Games (131)
Home & Garden (88)
Toys & Games (69)
Software (21)
Popular Music (19)
Classical Music (5)
Magazine Subscriptions (4)
Video (2)
Apparel (2)
DVD (1)
Kitchen & Housewares (1)
Industrial Supplies (73)
Arts & Hobbies (68)
Lifestyle & Gifts (47)
Car Parts & Accessories (24)
Restaurant Menus (16)
Scientific Supplies (14)
Home Furnishings (12)
Medical Supplies (10)
zShops (391)
Auctions (51)

On preview, I see other’s have already come up with the same results I have. BTW, I might mention since you’re searching on Terry Pratchett, you might want to check out The UK Amazon. I ordered “A Hat Full of Sky” from there back on April 29th (but due to having it shipped the cheap way, it only just arrived the day before yesterday). I am enjoying the heck out of it …

… and upon reading my own reply I see that there is a rogue apostrophe that I totally missed on preview. Arrrgggggg! :smack:

And when I searched, I got this–

:confused: :confused: :confused:

Nothing I Search for provides results?!? :confused: :confused: :confused:

I’m getting the same thing, Bosda. It will tell me related searches, so I click on those, thinking I possibly misspelled something, and then it will tell me it couldn’t find any exact matches! :mad:

It started working again around 2pm, but I can’t say if it will last.

This has been going on, on and off, for at least a week.

I’ve been deeply, terribly, woefully mainlining Amazon.com these days. Partly because I’m on some terrible reading binge and ordering way too many books, partly because I’m composing a new web page and adding lots of Amazon.com links (which requires me doing a lot of searches).

It just happens now and then. Sometimes it’ll last for 20 minutes or so, other times it’s just for a few search attempts and then it’s back to normal.

What happens is that they come up with nothing. And they don’t seem to know what keywords I put in. Like as if I put in nothing in my search.

I at first thought it was my browser (Firefox or Safari for OS X), but that’s not it. It’s just Amazon.

As far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing we can do at our end. It’s just something that we’ve got to tolerate. I find that the workaround that sometimes works is to put in a search for the author and book (if I know it) into Google. Usually Google lists an Amazon link high on the list and I can then find it that way.