<story><title>Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads</title><url>https://www.recode.net/2018/9/10/17797720/amazon-is-stuffing-its-search-results-pages-with-ads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maaaats</author><text>Unless you know exctly brand&amp;#x2F;make&amp;#x2F;model you wan&amp;#x27;t to buy on Amazon, the search is useless. Hundreds of similar results from dozens of vendors of varying quality.&lt;p&gt;I liked it better when they sold things themselves, now they&amp;#x27;re just an eBay clone selling cheap knockoffs trying to hide the fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NeedMoreTea</author><text>Even then it&amp;#x27;s borderline useless as when you search for the exact pair of trousers you want you&amp;#x27;ll now get other ranges, and dozens upon dozens of fake-brand cheap knockoffs.&lt;p&gt;When you do find the item, you&amp;#x27;ll find in amongst the &amp;quot;customers also looked at&amp;#x2F;bought&amp;quot; 4 or 5 other pages containing the exact same item. At different prices and stock levels. None of which showed up in the search you just did for that item.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s completely broken and absurd.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads</title><url>https://www.recode.net/2018/9/10/17797720/amazon-is-stuffing-its-search-results-pages-with-ads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maaaats</author><text>Unless you know exctly brand&amp;#x2F;make&amp;#x2F;model you wan&amp;#x27;t to buy on Amazon, the search is useless. Hundreds of similar results from dozens of vendors of varying quality.&lt;p&gt;I liked it better when they sold things themselves, now they&amp;#x27;re just an eBay clone selling cheap knockoffs trying to hide the fact.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Loughla</author><text>&amp;gt;now they&amp;#x27;re just an eBay clone selling cheap knockoffs trying to hide the fact.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve moved almost all of my online purchases BACK to ebay actually because of this. At least ebay&amp;#x27;s trust system is easy to understand and harder to game than what amazon has in terms of reviews.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m interested to see if this is a trend, or if my circle of friends is an outlier.</text></comment>