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Jeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC alleges (www.cnbc.com)

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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.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 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.

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