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Re:The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazo... by bduerst on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:45PM (#21715006)
Google shopping results are search ads with pictures. Every single listing is paid to be there. They're literally set up in the same place that the rest of Google ads are. EU wasn't able to distinguish this so they slapped them on the wrist.

Amazon isn't promoting sponsored products, they're promoting their own. That would be like Google only showing Pixel 4 as a result for "buy smartphone".

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Re:The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazo... by tyingq on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:03PM (#21715224)
That's not the context of what I replied to. The context was what they got in trouble with, which was was they do today, but with some exclusivity clauses.
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Re:The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazo... by mypalmike on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:26PM (#21717345)
Google's top search result for "buy smartphone" is Pixel 4.
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Re:The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazo... by bduerst on Thursday December 05, 2019 @06:27PM (#21717805)
Top search results for "buy smartphone" is Best Buy's smartphone page (organic) and Verizon's product page (paid).
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Re:The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazo... by mypalmike on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:04AM (#21719404)
Dependent on who is searching it seems...
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Re:The best Cyber Monday deals according to Alexa: any Amazo... by bduerst on Friday December 06, 2019 @01:48PM (#21724797)
This was using incognito w/ disconnect. Your results are tailored to you.
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