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This seems like an opportunity to build a "better" search engine for Amazon and reap the affiliate revenue. There's got to be a reason no-one (to my knowledge)

by mthoms 5y ago

This seems like an opportunity to build a "better" search engine for Amazon and reap the affiliate revenue. There's got to be a reason no-one (to my knowledge) has done this: They probably forbid affiliates from doing their own indexing and ranking. Does anyone know for sure?

der-ofenmeister 5y ago
> They probably forbid affiliates from doing their own indexing and ranking. Does anyone know for sure? They do. I came across a reddit thread where a guy had built a simple php-based search indexer for Amazon and managed to pay for his college through it. After this incident they apparently put changed their developer terms of service!