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Re:Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Ow... by bduerst on Monday September 16, 2019 @04:17PM (#20988153)
Again, comparisons with physical retail are moot because, in your grocery store, nobody can walk in off the street and start selling off the shelves. The grocery store is not an open e-commerce platform but a curated service with physical scarcity.

People don't have an issue with Amazon default sorting to best selling either. The problem is that Amazon is slowly pushing out the competition on their platform to focus their own products and labels. If there's any analogy, it would be similar Google removing search result links to Bing or Yandex.

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Re:Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Ow... by vinay_ys on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:42AM (#20991963)
> Again, comparisons with physical retail are moot because, in your grocery store, nobody can walk in off the street and start selling off the shelves. The grocery store is not an open e-commerce platform but a curated service with physical scarcity.

So, if Amazon marketplace was an invite-only, curated marketplace and not an "open" marketplace, this wouldn't be a problem?

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