If the products on your site have brand names, try doing a search for a specific item using that item's brand name. For example, if your site has a number of Sony products, search for "Sony ". You'll notice that the keyword Sony has hijacked your product search and turned it into a brand search!
Enter "Search Term Filtering". With this simple extension, you can add words or phrases that should be removed from any search on your site. That search for "Sony " becomes a search for "".