Is there a way to use the NOT operator on Amazon?
I'm trying to find books, and am finding it very frustrating to be unable to filter out books I don't want based on author or subject.
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I'm trying to find books, and am finding it very frustrating to be unable to filter out books I don't want based on author or subject.
You can use the minus sign (-
) in front of the terms you want to exclude from the search results.
For example: stephen king -dark
ECC -"NON-ECC" -"NON ECC" -"non-ECC" -"Non-ECC"
STILL returns boat loads of product titles containing "NON-ECC" making it feel almost impossible to find ecc ram.
Dec 13, 2016 at 7:22
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sign trick does not work anymore : "Quick Charge" -Type -"USB C"
As of Feb 2021 Amazon still does not regard the NOT operator.
site:amazon.com lightbulbs -led
Of course, you don't have the sorting-order of Amazon's search engine anymore.
As of July 2015, at least there is no reliable way to use a NOT operator.
At least on Amazon.de searching for hard drive -usb
will reduce the number of USB drives, but already the last result on the first page contained "USB" in the title.
Searching for tischventilator -usb
(German for table fan) on the other hand pushes usb devices even more to the top of the result list than just searching for tischventilator
.
On Amazon.com again, adding -usb
to table fan
has the intended effect.
Thanks to this answer, I've discovered that amazon respects + before a keyword too!
For example: Radeon +7990 will give you exactly 7990's results and not variations on models like 6990 or 7970 like it normally does.
+
to a search term just assigns extra weight to that term, rather than acting as a Boolean operator that excludes all non-matching results. So, non-matching results do still show up, and still frustratingly often; just not as often as if +
weren't used. (I guess Amazon is using some kind of fuzzy logic for its search engine. Whatever the underlying reasoner is doing, though, it is doing it badly. Amazon's search engine is awful.)