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> Amazon gives its own private label products and first-party products an advantage over competitors in a number of ways, from algorithmic ranking, to the buy b
by paulcarroty 7y ago
> Amazon gives its own private label products and first-party products an advantage over competitors in a number of ways, from algorithmic ranking, to the buy box, to premium advertising, to direct to consumer marketing, to exclusive customer reviews.
Alphabet does absolutely the same but have more power in advertising & page ranking plus collects petabytes users data using Chrome browser and Android platform.
Walmart, Google Clouds, Azure are alive and still grows up, so this article use over-dramatic effects like TV show.
- smt88 7y agoLet me restate the article's argument: Amazon has enough monopoly power in certain categories to abuse that power to harm competition, and Amazon chooses to do so. Would you still disagree?
- stcredzero 7y ago______ has enough monopoly power in certain categories to abuse that power to harm competition, and ______ chooses to do so. This generalizes nicely! What if a company has enough power in certain categories to abuse that power to harm competition, not directly for itself, but for its clients and advertisers? I'm thinking about YouTube here. YouTube has enough power in certain categories to abuse that power to harm media enterprises on the YouTube platform. Some people argue that YouTube does so to the benefit of other media enterprises who happen to pay YouTube for advertisement.