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The correct solution is a no ads marketplace. Where search results return what the user searched for and literally no one (not even Amazon) gets to pay to put

The correct solution is a no ads marketplace. Where search results return what the user searched for and literally no one (not even Amazon) gets to pay to put their products at the top of the results.

granzymes 3y ago
Maybe that’s your preference, but it certainly isn’t against the law to offer advertising.
- schneems 3y ago
  Yet
- A4ET8a8uTh0 3y ago
  Parent's point is that maybe it should be.
- zx8080 3y ago
  Remember SEO. Is it ads? No. Does it bring money? Yes. Expensive? Probably, simar to ads: both will eat the whole budget until empty and ask for more. But SEO is quite hidden and hard to define. Ads are there, see a banner. SEO? No obvious 100% criteria for it.
  - QuarterReptile 3y ago
    SEO is hidden? SEO is the sea that the entire internet has drowned in, unless you know where to go diving through it to find underwater caves that still have some air left.
    - zx8080 3y ago
      Can a regular person (or an expert) tell that you see an ad? Usually yes, as it's banner or some visually distinct piece of a web or real estate. Can one tell that a text is produced by SEO? Usually no (especially, when it's good quality). Now, the difference is: - In ads case, a government comes and asks for a tax. Because there is a clear case for a transaction in an economy sense (ad for money). - In SEO case, no transaction proof is there. Can't come and ask to pay tax, or regulate anything. It could be a happy customer who wrote a piece of text. Or clever SEO author. Or both mixed. Can't tell! In this sense SEO brings less or no tax.
marcinzm 3y ago
> what the user searched for How do you define that? Do you exact match on query text? How products that convert better? Have lower return rates? Is a 1 start product that matches the query exactly better than a 5 start that mostly matches? Etc, etc.

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The correct solution is a no ads marketplace. Where search results return what the user searched for and literally no one (not even Amazon) gets to pay to put

by riskable 3y ago

granzymes 3y ago
Maybe that’s your preference, but it certainly isn’t against the law to offer advertising.
- schneems 3y ago
  Yet
- A4ET8a8uTh0 3y ago
  Parent's point is that maybe it should be.
- zx8080 3y ago
  Remember SEO. Is it ads? No. Does it bring money? Yes. Expensive? Probably, simar to ads: both will eat the whole budget until empty and ask for more. But SEO is quite hidden and hard to define. Ads are there, see a banner. SEO? No obvious 100% criteria for it.
  - QuarterReptile 3y ago
    SEO is hidden? SEO is the sea that the entire internet has drowned in, unless you know where to go diving through it to find underwater caves that still have some air left.
    - zx8080 3y ago
      Can a regular person (or an expert) tell that you see an ad? Usually yes, as it's banner or some visually distinct piece of a web or real estate. Can one tell that a text is produced by SEO? Usually no (especially, when it's good quality). Now, the difference is: - In ads case, a government comes and asks for a tax. Because there is a clear case for a transaction in an economy sense (ad for money). - In SEO case, no transaction proof is there. Can't come and ask to pay tax, or regulate anything. It could be a happy customer who wrote a piece of text. Or clever SEO author. Or both mixed. Can't tell! In this sense SEO brings less or no tax.
marcinzm 3y ago
> what the user searched for How do you define that? Do you exact match on query text? How products that convert better? Have lower return rates? Is a 1 start product that matches the query exactly better than a 5 start that mostly matches? Etc, etc.