orsenfelt

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   by orsenfelt 9y ago

   Shopping doesn't crawl the web in any way. Retailers submit their stock data feed to it and can then pay to have specific products show up in the embedded box in search terms. Which is where the anti-trust issue obviously comes in. All
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   by orsenfelt 9y ago

   If I ran a mapping website I'd bend over backwards for a chance at that embedded sidebar Google spot. Everyone would.
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   by orsenfelt 9y ago

   Interestingly, Google Shopping (when it was Froogle) used to be quite good - back when any eCommerce site could just send in the feed of their stock. At some point they moved towards Google Checkout (Google Merchant/Wallet?) verificati
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   by orsenfelt 13y ago

   >> So don't promote it on the publicly funded sites. Done. That's exactly what they are doing. The only sites the BBC are legally allowed to operate within the UK have to be publicly funded.
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   by orsenfelt 13y ago

   No the problem is that the content was created with the intention of making profit and the BBC aren't allowed to do that in the UK.