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by barrad0s 1788 days ago
There's also an even worse thing here. If you search for a product under shopping on google, something that is somewhat known like a certain TV model, and you'll see most SHOPPING results are from websites that actually don't sell anything, but rather will have a "product page" where either the buy button is disabled or redirects to amazon. They typically have much lower prices, or just low enough so you'll click.
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I don’t understand why Google doesn’t make Google shopping not terrible. Big potential business value for them if people actually used it.
From a certain perspective, you can argue Amazon has a monopoly on sales coming from search engines.