Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Elkenders@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Two reasons:

    It promotes excessively tagging products with keywords

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    It allows them to seamlessly sort their own promoted products in the top results and actually be considered

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    • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sellers can also pay Amazon to get a higher listing in that shitfest of a result page. It’s all intentional.

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because they’re big enough to get away with it.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I imagine to keep users on the site longer

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