Google Shopping

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2007–2022), in 12 threads.

People raised many different problems with Google Shopping, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 12 complaints

Search for a specific product returns wrong models and irrelevant ads instead2022-10-29
Relevant product results briefly appear then get replaced by unrelated products2022-05-18
Cannot exclude a category, so it's hard to find non-striped shirts2021-11-30
Merchants face many hoops and opaque black-box steps to get listed2021-04-22
Filter options appear in different orders or sometimes disappear depending on the search2020-04-21
Google Shopping is less useful than before, so shopping around for items takes more effort2019-07-15
Described as a terrible experience that people avoid using2013-12-12
Mom has to scroll past many ads to find better deals2013-01-07
Shopping searches on Google are painful to use2011-08-17
Red box and '1 out of 2 tries' alert make correct picks look wrong2011-08-12
Search returns no results for a simple query like cats2011-06-28
Renamed URL is slower to reach, so the commenter stopped using it2007-10-23