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Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by alangibson on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:49AM (#27253407)
This isn't Amazon.se specific, but I absolutely can't understand what Amazon has done to product descriptions. On June 21st they will start striping all HTML from descriptions. The only way to get a descent description will be to enter the Brand Registry then use the A+ Content system. Imagine how unreadable a huge number of descriptions are about to become. And that's if you can find it among all the recommendations and upsells.
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Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by carlhjerpe on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:56AM (#27253433)
They had a gameboy ripoff that with an English description would say something like "Can withstand a childs abuse" but the Swedish translation was "kan motstå barns våldtäkter" which translates into "can withstand being raped by children". Amazon.se is a joke
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Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by superjan on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:39AM (#27255770)
For all you out there that build websites targeting Europe: please allow us to disable machine translation. In germanic language speaking countries nearly all are fluent in English. Maybe not all of the elderly but if you want to do businesses with them, machine translation will not be good enough.
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Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by LargoLasskhyfv on Sunday May 23, 2021 @03:18PM (#27257711)
While I concur with that, I sometimes wonder which machine translations they used? Googles got better, Deepl even more so.

Maybe they should embed the latter as option for the languages it understands.

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Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by alangibson on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:59AM (#27253454)
So they just ran their descriptions through an auto translator not even tuned for Swedish then published it without review. Classic.
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Re:Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations by jug on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:00AM (#27254104)
Yes. There was a lot of rape. Rapeseed is an example where rape has a different meaning but in Sweden the words are most definite distinct and it littered the site by making the wrong pick… Looked extremely amateur. There were other examples too of course, as is the norm with machine translations.

I’m not even sure the initial launch looked as good as that Chinese site Wish…

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