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It's not a special deal. Google would love to have a deal with Amazon. It's simply that Amazon is one of the few companies that can get away with not paying Go
by gamblor956 1y ago
It's not a special deal. Google would love to have a deal with Amazon.
It's simply that Amazon is one of the few companies that can get away with not paying Google anything. Amazon is the big dog in this context.
If Google were to cut off Amazon from search results, people would just do all their shopping (and searches) directly on Amazon and cut Google out of the process entirely, and Google would lose hundreds of millions in ad revenue for the ads it show sin Amazon-related google searches. Amazon could even promote competitors to Google on their website just for the hell of it (or more likely in exchange for $$$ or stock), and Google would start seeing material drops in usage (material meaning large enough for investors to care about).
- saurik 1y agoA special deal isn't somehow not a special deal just because you don't have leverage and are kind of forced to provide it...
- gamblor956 1y agoI don't think you guys understand what a "special deal" is. A deal is an agreement between two parties. Amazon and Google don't have a deal. Amazon is just doing whatever the fuck it wants and Google is going along, because Google already lost this battle in court. Notably, Amazon didn't start offering the option to buy books in the Android apps until after Google lost the court case. Amazon is very likely to do this with its Apple apps later this year as well, now that Apple has also lost this battle and may be facing civil and criminal sanctions for its continued attempts to prevent companies from doing what Amazon did on Android.