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Ask HN: Why is Google a shopping site now?
I literally can’t search for any physical object without getting all product links and prices. Fuck ads google is an online retail aggregator now? How is this acceptable to anyone?
- bell-cot 3y agoMost consumer products & services are profit-optimized crap these days. The vast majority of people gripe about that, but they keep buying & using 'em. Why should use of Google be different?
- ttfkam 3y agoNow? Google Shopping, hotels, flights, etc. is at least 10 years old.
- k310 3y agoEven DuckDuckGo places product links above results that are not shopping-related. It must be SEO, which makes EVERY search site a shopping site. I use several browsers, and I think one of them has an extension or setting that prioritizes Wikipedia (and Jimmy Wales’ banner ads begging money … where’s that WikiNag extension?) I went to look up Feynman Path Integrals, and lo and behold, I can buy them on ebay. https://i.ibb.co/c3X9zys/IMG-0801.jpg https://i.ibb.co/c3X9zys/IMG-0801.jpg Wikipedia did come in first, though. It’s a good starting point for many searches. P.S. Try contributing $50 billion or so to Wikipedia. Your money’s no good. Maybe that’s why they come up short.