> When I want to buy something, I type "amazon.com", not "google.com".

I do the exact opposite, I either search a specific business' site or Google something vague like "sturdy cargo pants," find a brand / store that I like and visit that store.

I've been burned too many times by cheap, fake shit from Amazon. I'm not willing to deal with the hassle and wasted time.

Google really does have the best business model. It uses an auction model for advertising so most of the profits go to google and then user still blames the actual business for the problems.

Same. I start on Google and then usually buy on Amazon. Google has the Amazon links like they should and it is high on the list even though Amazon is Google chief competitor.

Reason being Amazon is popular and offers a great service. Versus Yelp is horrible so not high on the list.

Kind of indicates Google search is working how it should and Yelp just has sour grapes.

Now if Amazon moved to the second page that would be something to put on 60 minutes.

> Same. I start on Google and then usually buy on Amazon.

When I said "visit the store" I meant "visit a physical shop." Amazon Basics aside, purchasing their physical products are fraught with peril. Especially with easy-to-forge high-margin products like clothing.

I have a few pairs of $40 inauthentic shorts I'd ordered off of Amazon a few years back. I realized they were fake after venturing into a physical store and seeing the difference, but I had gone years thinking Billabong had some seriously shoddy clothes.

I'm surprised we don't see more lawsuits of companies suing Amazon for peddling fakes goods and damaging their brand.

This way of shopping/browsing is becoming, if not already, the minority.

People use the address bar as a query line - increasingly with voice commands over the address bar even.

So, whomever runs the search tool behind the search bar (overwhelmingly google) controls the product space.

That is because you are familiar with services Amazon and Yelp provide. There are a large number of people who do not. They may not know all of the different services (or want to shop around) so a "general" search on Google would be their starting point.

You're pretending like 90% of people don't interface with the network by just using google. The few people who don't do that just search social networks instead.

I'm old enough to type in a URL, I rarely see anyone else who does that anymore.