<story><title>Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-changed-search-algorithm-in-ways-that-boost-its-own-products-11568645345?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ikeboy</author><text>They recalled a quarter million power banks because they were catching fire.&lt;p&gt;Everybody uses the same factories and Amazon doesn&amp;#x27;t have better quality control than anyone else.</text></item><item><author>jastanton</author><text>The one difference is that the Amazon Basics products seem to have a quality bar higher than the other random re-labeled products.</text></item><item><author>password1</author><text>&amp;gt; Otherwise, Amazon feels like AliExpress with faster shipping and better English.&lt;p&gt;It literally is. All these products are cheap stuff that marketers find on aliexpress. They buy them in bulk, stamp a logo on it, import in the US&amp;#x2F;EU, stock in logistic centers and then sell on Amazon. It&amp;#x27;s the same stuff, but it comes from an English seller and a warehouse in US&amp;#x2F;EU.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s exactly the same thing that Amazon does with its product lines though (like Amazon Basics), so not really rooting for their own name-brands either.</text></item><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>Considering how shopping at Amazon now feels like shopping at an electronics bazaar in Singapore with giant bins of random knock-off products of suspicious quality, tweaking the algo to push name-brand options (even if it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;their own&lt;/i&gt; name-brand) would be a welcome move to me as a buyer.&lt;p&gt;Obviously it&amp;#x27;s grossly unfair to their vendors, but from a strictly user-centric view it&amp;#x27;s an improvement.&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, Amazon feels like AliExpress with faster shipping and better English.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>VBprogrammer</author><text>To be fair, Samsung had to scrap a whole phone model because of battery problems. The Boeing 787 suffered with problems of batteries catching fire (and according to some reports still does). It&amp;#x27;s a tricky problem to avoid.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-changed-search-algorithm-in-ways-that-boost-its-own-products-11568645345?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ikeboy</author><text>They recalled a quarter million power banks because they were catching fire.&lt;p&gt;Everybody uses the same factories and Amazon doesn&amp;#x27;t have better quality control than anyone else.</text></item><item><author>jastanton</author><text>The one difference is that the Amazon Basics products seem to have a quality bar higher than the other random re-labeled products.</text></item><item><author>password1</author><text>&amp;gt; Otherwise, Amazon feels like AliExpress with faster shipping and better English.&lt;p&gt;It literally is. All these products are cheap stuff that marketers find on aliexpress. They buy them in bulk, stamp a logo on it, import in the US&amp;#x2F;EU, stock in logistic centers and then sell on Amazon. It&amp;#x27;s the same stuff, but it comes from an English seller and a warehouse in US&amp;#x2F;EU.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s exactly the same thing that Amazon does with its product lines though (like Amazon Basics), so not really rooting for their own name-brands either.</text></item><item><author>Pxtl</author><text>Considering how shopping at Amazon now feels like shopping at an electronics bazaar in Singapore with giant bins of random knock-off products of suspicious quality, tweaking the algo to push name-brand options (even if it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;their own&lt;/i&gt; name-brand) would be a welcome move to me as a buyer.&lt;p&gt;Obviously it&amp;#x27;s grossly unfair to their vendors, but from a strictly user-centric view it&amp;#x27;s an improvement.&lt;p&gt;Otherwise, Amazon feels like AliExpress with faster shipping and better English.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jandrese</author><text>The other vendors who bought from that factory and rebranded them had the same problem did not issue a recall.</text></comment>