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luckylion on June 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage: Putting Its Ow...

Okay, that sounds conspiratorial, but: is that why Amazon's search is atrociously terrible, so that they can sell the top spots for more? If you could search by attributes reliably, the top spots lose relative value.

preommr on June 8, 2020 [–]

Well I doubt they actively try to make it worse.

But I would believe it if because of the lack of incentive, they din't make active efforts to improve it.

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