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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by mthoms on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:06PM (#29396077)
This seems like an opportunity to build a "better" search engine for Amazon and reap the affiliate revenue.

There's got to be a reason no-one (to my knowledge) has done this: They probably forbid affiliates from doing their own indexing and ranking. Does anyone know for sure?

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by der-ofenmeister on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @03:02PM (#29396761)
> They probably forbid affiliates from doing their own indexing and ranking. Does anyone know for sure?

They do. I came across a reddit thread where a guy had built a simple php-based search indexer for Amazon and managed to pay for his college through it. After this incident they apparently put changed their developer terms of service!

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