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afaik they rewrite any amazon and ebay results to link with their own affiliate ID :/
by maximusprime 15y ago
afaik they rewrite any amazon and ebay results to link with their own affiliate ID :/
- blahedo 15y agoWhy the :/ ? DDG isn't taking away anyone _else's_ affiliation, right? This isn't really any different than leaving the referer-id in there, except that it shoehorns "referer" into the "affiliate" api that Amazon et al are geared to pay money for. (Right?)
- maximusprime 15y agoI don't like a search engine that messes with results. Keep the ads separate. Just my opinion though.
- blahedo 15y agoWe're talking about the organic results here. I was, anyway. Amazon (et al) show up there even without a paid ad.
- pantaloons 15y agoIt creates an incentive for DDG to favor Amazon, or other affiliate pages in their rankings. A search engine where you pay for Ad placement is very different to a search engine where you (effectively) pay for rankings.
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- asto 15y agoThey just use yahoo/bing/google results and redo the links where they're an affiliate. Which means the search rankings are decided by a third party who has no hand in the affiliate pot.
- darasen 15y agoThat's right because no one pays for their google ranking. oh wait...
- robrenaud 15y agoWho pays for their Google ranking? People might pay SEO companies to help them rank better, but I am skeptical that they are paying Google for it.
- nextparadigms 15y agoAs an Amazon referrer, doesn't it mean they have to track you, too, until you make the sale? I thought they said there's no tracking whatsoever.
- tesseract 15y agoAmazon is tracking you regardless of whether you clicked on a referrer link.