Not sure how common this is but, when I know I am going to buy something I use Google to search. But really, I know I want to buy it from Amazon. I'm not really searching for other places to find it. I've just gotten used to Google === search. I know Google will help me locate the Amazon links so that's what I use. However, if I start searching for things using Google and can't find Amazon links - will I start buying stuff somewhere else? The answer is no; I will start searching somewhere else.
Google’s search of Amazon products is frequently better than Amazon’s. For instance, I was looking for a specific long obsolete model of compact digital camera. Google easily finds to used ones for sale on Amazon. From within Amazon I never could make it give me the item, just pages of compatible accessories.
As an aside, it annoys me to know end that I can't sort search results in Amazon across different departments/areas by price. You have to choose a category like "Electronics" before you can do that. I wish Google made it easier to do more flexible searching+sorting on Amazon.
Lately I've been trying to get more into embedded electronics. I was surprised how much cheaper it is to find things on ebay and aliexpress. The shipping is often much slower than on Amazon but I can get resistors, solder flux, esp32's, shift registers, etc -- waaaaay cheaper. Though it may be because aliexpress hosts a lot of sellers directly from China where the items are manufactured? I used to think of ebay as auction-only, but I generally research things on Amazon for product details and then go to ebay to find it hundreds of dollars cheaper. Did this yesterday with a laptop. Amazon is less risky than aliexpress or ebay, but I save more than I lose.
Try setting your default search provider to DuckDuckGo for a while. Searching for things on Amazon as you describe becomes "!a thing I want". Bang commands[0] are life changing.
