Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business

Re:Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business by spaceman_2020 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:20AM (#35052929)

Outside of basic data like figuring out the cast of a movie, practically all of my searches now have "reddit" appended to them.

Medical and health-related queries are particularly screwed. Every top result is practically the same gamified SEO trash with filler content.

I also don't know who told Google to ignore the keywords in my search query and show me a cluttered page that targets "topics" instead of keywords.

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Re:Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business by lordnacho on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:23AM (#35053712)

The cool thing about Reddit is you might just be able to ask for a recommendation and someone will give it to you. Either someone else has asked before, or you find the right sub where the people with the answer are.

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Re:Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business by everdrive on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:20AM (#35054522)

Just imagine what AI will do this in 4 years. You can no longer trust the recommendations, there are whole threads written by bots to push specific products.

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