Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices

Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by godzillabrennus on Saturday March 03, 2018 @05:51PM (#16512174)

I guess since Amazon can use it's monopoly position to hurt Google it would be fair for Google to punish Amazon by restricting who can find products through their search engine?

Maybe a little trade war between the giants would help them realize this is stupid.

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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by doorbumper on Saturday March 03, 2018 @06:57PM (#16512455)

It's more troublesome for Google to retaliate. Google is already under scrutiny for unfair search results from regulatory agencies all over the globe.

Amazon has gone mostly unnoticed, and exerts their power without fear of reprisal.

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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by drdrey on Saturday March 03, 2018 @06:45PM (#16512406)

if only there was some sort of federal trade agency that could fine companies for abusing their monopoly positions

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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by noarchy on Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:21AM (#16513389)

If only there was a monopoly. It isn't as if you suddenly can't get these device any longer.

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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by mattnewton on Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:28AM (#16513408)

Monopoly power can be exerted at a whole lot less than 100% of the market.

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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by Buge on Sunday March 04, 2018 @03:14AM (#16513744)

Google also doesn't have the only place you can get search results (eg Bing). But that didn't stop Europe from handing out a $2.8 billion fine.

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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by BonoboBoner on Sunday March 04, 2018 @05:03AM (#16514028)

35% of ecommerce customer journeys already start on amazon. It is not like they totally depend on SERP rankings.

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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by cornholio on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:09AM (#16514575)

Let's see how that plays out when Chrome gives out a blank page for every Amazon domain ! <insert Brin & Page evil laugh here />

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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by gaius on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:16AM (#16513904)

I guess since Amazon can use it's monopoly position to hurt Google it would be fair for Google to punish Amazon by restricting who can find products through their search engine?

All that will do is push people to search Amazon first cutting Google out of the loop altogether.

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