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Disclaimer: Used to work at Amazon. Funny story, internally Amazon Search doesn't consider the ads products to be part of the "search results". It is tracked a

Disclaimer: Used to work at Amazon. Funny story, internally Amazon Search doesn't consider the ads products to be part of the "search results". It is tracked and accounted to Ads. The way Ads are handled on Amazon is really poorly done. The Ads teams claim to make a lot of money (and based on the internal accounting tricks they do), and as such have been pushing Amazon's leadership to go more into Ads, even tho every person I've met that worked at Amazon also hated the prevalence of Ads. Literally, Directors and VPs at Amazon are afraid to step on the toes of Ads' leadership team because of how well they have told the story about "Ads is excessively profitable". Meanwhile, all of us in the thread can easily say, even if it is short term profitable, it most certainly is not long term profitable for Amazon. Both from internally and externally it has been very disappointing to watch actually.

acchow 3y ago
Sure the ads aren’t great. But that’s almost barely a problem compared to the gamed reviews
- SteveNuts 3y ago
  > But that’s almost barely a problem compared to the gamed reviews Which pales in comparison to the problem of counterfeit goods, IMO. I can at least somewhat comb through the reviews to look for outliers of well written reviews. Getting something that's obviously a fake (has happened to me multiple times) is completely unacceptable. Newegg has this issue too, I got a knock-off Intel CPU there once, I was furious.
  - wincy 3y ago
    What the heck, what does a knock off Intel CPU even look like? Who is making them and more importantly, how?
    - NovemberWhiskey 3y ago
      It's more like: old being sold as new, engineering samples sold as production parts, relabelling lower spec parts as higher spec on the packages etc.
- malfist 3y ago
  You can complain about two things you know. Just because search is bad doesn't mean reviews can't be bad too. Or <insert pet peeve>
nijave 3y ago
So... The advertising team is good at marketing?

acchow 3y ago

Sure the ads aren’t great. But that’s almost barely a problem compared to the gamed reviews

SteveNuts 3y ago
> But that’s almost barely a problem compared to the gamed reviews Which pales in comparison to the problem of counterfeit goods, IMO. I can at least somewhat comb through the reviews to look for outliers of well written reviews. Getting something that's obviously a fake (has happened to me multiple times) is completely unacceptable. Newegg has this issue too, I got a knock-off Intel CPU there once, I was furious.
- wincy 3y ago
  What the heck, what does a knock off Intel CPU even look like? Who is making them and more importantly, how?
  - NovemberWhiskey 3y ago
    It's more like: old being sold as new, engineering samples sold as production parts, relabelling lower spec parts as higher spec on the packages etc.
malfist 3y ago
You can complain about two things you know. Just because search is bad doesn't mean reviews can't be bad too. Or <insert pet peeve>

nijave 3y ago

So... The advertising team is good at marketing?