This is a lot more useful. I've never used Google's shopping reccomendations since they changed them a while ago from a price aggregator to a kind of store. The

This is a lot more useful. I've never used Google's shopping reccomendations since they changed them a while ago from a price aggregator to a kind of store. The problem is that I don't trust them to give me a full overview of the market, and to find the best offers. Thus I always visited a couple of independent sites, and relied on the general search results not the shopping ones. I expect from a search engine - at least a giant general-purpose search engine - that it is completely objective and honest. Only showing certain offers, or products from their affiliates, completely defeats the purpose. But if they are legally bound to fairly represent "competitors" (or products that are sold by sites that are not their affiliates), then I can use their product search without fearing that they are hiding something from me. ( In Germany: guenstiger.de and heise.de have price search engines, then I look at amazon and ebay simply because they are so large, and then at a few of the largest specific web sites, e.g. alternate.de for computers. I only trust the "regular" google search results for shopping.)