{"id":1000397,"date":"2007-02-11T08:06:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T13:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/web-development\/2007\/02\/11\/amazon-loses-search\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T08:05:37","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T13:05:37","slug":"amazon-loses-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/2007\/02\/11\/amazon-loses-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Turns Off Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some weirdness at Amazon this morning. The search boxes appear to have vanished from the top of the page and the sidebars. One is still hiding way down at the bottom of the page. This is a very bad change since site-specific search is one of the primary ways users navigate Amazon. I&#8217;m not sure if this is a temporary glitch or a rare example of bad Amazon design. Usually Amazon is one of the more usable and intelligently designed sites, so this comes as a bit of a shock.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s a temporary glitch. I notice I can&#8217;t log into my account there right now either:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<h2>We&#8217;re sorry!<\/h2>\n<p>  An error occurred when we tried to process your request.  Rest assured, we&#8217;re working to resolve the problem as soon as possible.  If you were trying to make a purchase, please check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/account-access-login\">Your Account<\/a> to confirm that the order was placed. We apologize for the inconvenience.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some weirdness at Amazon this morning. The search boxes appear to have vanished from the top of the page and the sidebars. One is still hiding way down at the bottom of the page. This is a very bad change since site-specific search is one of the primary ways users navigate Amazon. I&#8217;m not sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-development","category-user-interface","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}