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[WanMan]

Ok, so I am in Best Buy yesterday and come across Fantastic Four on Blu-ray for a whopping $35. No deal. I get up this morning and go out to Amazon and search for "Fantastic Four' and the Blu-ray version does not come up in their search results. Strange, must be too expensive to sell--or too expensive to sell to me.

I break out Google, perform the search and the first link if Amazon offering it. WTF? In the workplace I am use to bad company search engines (try Cisco!) and get better results going through Google. Now, I am not trying to advocate Google, but its crazy when someone like Amazon can't find the article I am looking for even though they have it and sell it.

Then I got to thinking cookies can play into this. I remember experiencing a condition in which if I had previously searched on a reseller's website for something it gave me one price (1st time visitor newbie enticement), but upon a re-visit it gave me a more expensive price--I even verified this by using a second computer on the same home network and was amazed at the difference in results.

I now wonder if Amazon is doing this with cookies. "Don't sell him that cheap Blu-ray movie. Instead, hide and and push him towards something else." Even at the cost of my doing business with them. Really strange.

[perisoft]

The silver surfer has obviously gamed Amazon's search engine to prevent people from finding the flick. Why do you think they call him the silver surfer anyway?

[ecrabb]

So, clear your cookies or use a different browser and revisit. I'm curious, too.
I'd suspect a metadata error or a mistake before anything else.

SC