Amazon's ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.

Jeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC alleges::Amazon’s ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.

  • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Yeah I can see that. Amazon shows up as a top result for nearly anything that’s a product, regardless of whether it’s a product they actually carry.

    Sometimes clicking through leads to a competing product - often with a name more random than found in an Ikea catalogue - or sometimes just completely unrelated shyte.