Amazon becoming impossible

Unless you know exactly what you want to order, you are not likely to find anything you want just by "searching" on Amazon anymore.  (And it's not much better on Google either.)

Searching for something more and more resembles calling in your song request to a 1950's "Top 40" radio station.  Whatever you ask for, it will get translated to one of those Top 40.

Speaking of which, something very much like that is true for virtually everything that sells or serves, including streaming music services.  No matter what you ask for, you will get steered to something they have an extra interest in selling.  You will have to try really really hard to find something with which you were previously familiar, unless you remember the exact title and artist, and perhaps even then.

And on Amazon, this almost always means being steered to a very similar looking set of Chinese knock-offs.  I remember when I was looking for motorized window shades.  Many with different names looked like they could have been made in the same Chinese factory. 

Most people are long familiar with these things, and perhaps one of the reasons why brick and mortar stores haven't entirely faded away, just all become big chains.

Today I wanted a glass jar with a glass top.  Without knowing the exact name for what I was looking for (a Bell Top Jar), it was simply impossible to find.  Actually, on Amazon, even if I do type in "Bell Top Jar" it still can't find it.  Google does find them.  Amazon will find everything BUT what I want.  It will even find Bell Jars, but not Bell Top Jars.

If I type in the name of a specific bell top jar made by Anchor Hocking, the Anchor Hocking Heritage Hill Jar, it will find that.

When I tried constructions like "Jar with glass top" hardly any of the jars actually had a glass top, and if they did they were inevitably Mason Jars.

Amazon was happy to show me endless varieties of mason jars, but not any other kind of jar with a glass top than a mason jar, no matter how I phrased it.

Little else online was helpful either, though finally I stumbled upon the correct hame.