Snap Deal launches ‘Search’. I search for SEX TOYS. Result is Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged!!!

By Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal on April 27, 2012 12 Comments / 2722 views

I got this amazing mail from Snapdeal, telling me that their Search function had launched, and I could …….. well just check out their promise:

Now, you know me.

I’m Rodinhood.

So, I went to Snapdeal and searched for SEX TOYS.

I mean, if you ask me to search for what I want, then I will search for ‘whatever’ I want!

Lo and behold, this is the result I got!!

Ayn Rand’s book ATLAS SHRUGGED is a Sex Toy?

The book Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus is also a Sex Toy?

hmmmmmm….really?

Now either I’m living on Planet Xanadu (oops I’m from Mars) or Snapdeal really needs some lessons in what Men and Women do behind close doors. (beyond reading Atlas Shrugged).

I give up.

I shrug my shoulders.

VERDICT:

Sites like these will kill themselves even before you ‘like’ this post below and then share it on facebook 🙂

******

Comments

Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal

12 Comments

Saurabh Bongale April 27, 2012, 10:28 am

why are you searching “sex toys” in “Books & Movies”???
Snehil Khanor April 27, 2012, 10:33 am

If you had searched in all categories and not only books & movies.. you’d have found a “Lavish de Salon (Unisex)” too.. 😛

Well I thunk they are not using any search index (like solr or something) and are directly fetching from DB the items with word “Sex” and “toys” in it..
And if they are infact using something like solr.. they should work on their boost formula..

They will learn n grow.. give them time..
Snehil Khanor April 27, 2012, 10:35 am

and the reason why “Atlas shrugged” appeared in the result is because of this line in its description.. “In this novel she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex. “

They are definitely using simple DB query for searching 😐
Manoj Awasthi April 27, 2012, 10:55 am

haha.. lame!
Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal April 27, 2012, 12:18 pm

:-)))
Snehil Khanor April 27, 2012, 5:24 pm

Earlier they screwed up with their Android app.. and now with search too..
my ex- product lead told me in my early days – “Marketing only lands the user to the site.. rest depends upon the product”
Rajeev T.R. April 28, 2012, 4:26 am

If this is what SEO gathers ‘your search ends here’
Anamika Joshi April 28, 2012, 4:55 am

you see they have already mentioned – ‘your search ends here’…whatever you search here, the results will make you stop believing in the term ‘search’ on net. – So literally it’s like ‘your habit of searching ends with us’ 😉

u see it’s a saturday timepass that i am upto 😉
Snehil Khanor April 29, 2012, 9:56 am

They are sending parameter using POST request instead. Although I’m not sure.. but I guess analytics must be capable of recording it..
BUT at the user’s side.. if there’s no parameter in the URL he can’t book mark his searches after narrowing down.. neither he can share the results with anyone else.. #FAIL
Kamna Hazrati May 23, 2012, 9:49 am

I hope Hindi is not minded here! @Alok let me know your forum rules! But this is the only line which came to my head, when I tried their search!

Bhaiya search chale to chale, nai to button hi hata de!

searched for Dominos and found evertthing toys, shoes, jewelry, books, clothes, eyegear and …!!!! But didn’t find Dominos!
asha chaudhry May 23, 2012, 10:04 am

no lingo rules kamna!!!!!!!!!!!! but if someone requests for a translation, be ready with one!

p.s: i hope u found your pizza….somewhere!

🙂
Kamna Hazrati May 23, 2012, 10:31 am

Thank God! I can talk in Matra bhasha as well…!

and for the Pizza … Nah! it shows pizza’s but with Tattoos and DVD’s! Lol! Snapdeal amuses me!