Remember when Amazon first introduced "Search in the Book," and some people looking for specific books suddenly found the process much more difficult? That was swamping. It was entirely predictable. It also might have been avoidable. Improved performance of late suggests that it was at least partially curable, at least in terms of which books appear first. You should be aware of swamping, since it can affect almost any search process. When swamping occurs, the stuff that counts can disappear under a flood of other vaguely similar stuff. You're no longer looking for a needle in a haystack; you're looking for a dried stalk of fescue in a haystack.
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