Madman Madhu Menon gets to be Amazon's guinea pig for a new search design.

meanwhile, I'm still seeing the same old thing.

visit his site for more pics and commentary, including the tale of him telling others "look, it's changed" and everyone looking at him funny...

I have to say this is one of the smartest things Amazon does... testing new interfaces on small segments of thier population allows them to tweak. However, not telling folks they are a small expirmental group seems a bit cruel: witness madman's confusion.

I am quite interested to see how the tabs work out, if they ever make it to my browser.

What, then, is the big idea? What's the added benefit? I don't get it.

I was getting the tabs, but unpredictably, in the music section last evening. I could not actually do anything with them as they would go away with a page refresh and only show up every third page or so.

I can't help thinking that "Categories" is still the wrong word though - it's not explicitly mentioned elsewhere, only inferred by "All products" vs "Books", "DVDs" (etc) ... perhaps "Store" would be more familiar, being in line with the usage of "Stores" in their main tabbed navigation, the "Store you made", et al.

I can't help thinking that "Categories" is still the wrong word though - it's not explicitly mentioned elsewhere, only inferred by "All products" vs "Books", "DVDs" (etc) ... perhaps "Store" would be more familiar, being in line with the usage of "Stores" in their main tabbed navigation, the "Store you made", et al.

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