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A retailer not carrying one item, is different from a search engine blocking results.
by noncoml 9y ago
A retailer not carrying one item, is different from a search engine blocking results.
- Joakal 9y agoA search engine can simply not crawl Amazon's sites.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- namdnay 9y agoThe problem isn't Amazon retailer not carrying the Chromecast, it's Amazon marketplace refusing to let any retailers carry the Chromecast. A lot uglier IMHO
- deanCommie 9y agoWhy? Search is a service provided by a company trying to make money, just as a retailer. Just because it's an invaluable service now core to using the internet, doesn't make it a public utility. Here's the actual difference: If Google started blocking Amazon search results there would be an upoar. Amazon has blocked selling certain Google items, and there is barely a whimper. Here's the other difference: When GOogle shows Amazon search results, and users go through those results to make an Amazon purchase, Google gets a cut. That's how e-commerce works on the internet.
- noncoml 9y ago> Why? Search is a service provided by a company trying to make money, just as a retailer. I don't have any horses in this race, so I am not trying to take anybody's side, but since you ask, here is my opinion: A retailer is by default selecting what items to sell. A search engine is by default crawling everything. So one is kind of opt-in and the other opt-out.
- CaptSpify 9y agoThat's what a search engine should be. Google has strayed far away from that already.