Odd search result

[hackersbench]

I'm entering this because @ChrisGammell asked me to ...

If you search for "1X8 ANALOG MUX" , you get a fairly huge and strange set of results.

[ChrisGammell]

Was getting hopeful as I saw the "Analog Circuit" category being guessed at, but it indeed turned out to be not very useful.

As I mentioned on Twitter, we're attempting to gather some of these plain text terms and make it a better search experience. Do you normally search like this on other distributor sites? Or is it just a term you thought of right away?

Looking on Digikey, it looks like this term works well: http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?x=0&y=0&lang=en&site=us&keywords=1X8+ANALOG+MUX

[hackersbench]

Maybe I'm an odd duck but a LOT of my searches are function-centric.

It kind of goes like ... "Okay, I need an 8-bit priority encoder right here. Show me all of them, made by anyone, that are currently stocked, and not EOL."

I do searches far more at the early design phase than at the procure this BOM phase.

[hackersbench]

(BTW .. links embedded in posts here should open in a new tab)