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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by ggm on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @10:00PM (#41064099)
You lost me when you said their processes for books was "fine" -It may be good in some ways, but my experience of how they wrap it for consumer use is a giant mass of anti-patterns.

Charles Dickens should be the top match on the actual author, or at the very least biographies. But no. Amazon want us to go to "in the style of" or "related to a series which tangentially discussed Oliver twist" linkages "for your convenience"

Amazon will no doubt have A/B testing which shows net beneficial to revenue overall.

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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by bombcar on Thursday July 25, 2024 @08:32AM (#41067892)
Amazon gets a lot better with an ad blocker because most of the crap is sponsored results at the top of the search which if they’re gone, you get stuff that’s closer to an actual result for your search.
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