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Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by yencabulator »

cmonnow wrote: post #196
dodobirdlord wrote: post #191

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Presumably their data shows them that if they mix in some monitors that aren't 1440p or aren't IPS that customers still sometimes buy those monitors anyway. From Amazon's perspective the search functionality is more of a product discovery functionality. If they only showed what the customer was searching for they would miss out on sales to people who didn't start out with a clear idea of what they wanted.

fine, then come to a middle-ground: search bar (on the top) for window-shoppers selection boxes (on the left) for focus-shoppers If I select 1440p under Resolution, I do not want non-1440p monitors in search results.

The biggest problem with the selection boxes (when they do appear) is the garbage data. In this scenario, you'd get something like "1440p" "1440 pixels" and "1.4KP", sorted nowhere near each other.

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Post by three_seagrass »

Corrado wrote: post #236
three_seagrass wrote: post #203

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I can almost guarantee it's to get you to click back into the store for re-engagement.

I think it can be for both giving less data to Google and to get you to re-engage at Amazon.

Nope. Google hasn't been mining gmail emails since 2017.

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Post by cosmie »

three_seagrass wrote: post #201
cosmie wrote: post #178

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"We're not saying you have to pay us $50/month, but what will potential customers think if your business isn't Google Guaranteed while all your competitors are..." https://searchengineland.com/google-offering-upgraded-gmb-pr...

That's not an arbitrary service. You're paying to have Google review and dispute claims for business through local services.

Absolutely! I didn't intend to give the impression they weren't providing a service for that fee, but meant it in relation to skybrian's comment about "what else you need to set up and how much they charge".

The type of service offered by the $50/month GMB fee is designed to engender consumer confidence. As that Google Guaranteed status starts to propagate, companies showing up without it will start to be at a distinct disadvantage from the ones that do show it in their listings.

Scaling up the enhanced/paid GMB profiles at the same time as announcing the open and commission-free product listings is likely not a coincidence. The product listing change will result an accelerating need to adopt that paid GMB service as a baseline requirement in order to remain competitive.

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Post by dwild »

mikelward wrote: post #181
jeffbee wrote: post #133

This doesn't seem to solve the main problem I have with Amazon: even when I know exactly what I want, it's impossible to find. Amazon hides the thing you want behind the items they want you to buy instead, and they allow fakes and spammers to flourish. They never have the right aspects in their search filters, either. Looks like Google is the same way. I can't find an A19 LED light bulb with 2700K color temperature a…

If I search for Pixel 3 case on Amazon, it will also return Pixel 3 XL cases. If I search for 1440p IPS monitor, it will mix in some monitors that aren't 1440p, and some that aren't IPS. I'm not sure if it's because they don't want to solve the problem, because they don't care, or because somehow having customers need to spend more time on Amazon to research their purchases perversely leads to people spending more ti…

> If I search for Pixel 3 case on Amazon, it will also return Pixel 3 XL cases.

In reverse, someone looking for a Pixel 3 XL cases but only wrote Pixel 3 cases, would have been much more pissed than you were if it was has specific has you want.

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Post by beenBoutIT »

draebek wrote: post #200
beenBoutIT wrote: post #184

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Super-Fast shipping is available now to everyone now via USPS Priority Mail 3 day. It's 3 days at most and unlike Amazon the delivery time is guaranteed. Amazon's shipping time estimates aren't trustworthy enough to rely on for important deadlines, the buyer has no recourse other than a refund if shipping takes longer than it's supposed to.

FWIW I would never trust USPS to deliver on time in my city. They regularly lose packages for a week or two before magically delivering them, with tracking information that is the long-form equivalent of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. UPS, FedEx, and Amazon have all been vastly more reliable than USPS. However, USPS has been fine for me in other cities. Maybe, like real estate and cell phone coverage, location matters when it comes to p…

More specifically, Priority Mail Express comes with a money back guarantee where any delay would entitle you to a refund on your shipping fees.

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Post by mav3rick »

semi_good wrote: post #230
mav3rick wrote: post #229

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Lol okay ? Literally everything you touched on the Internet today probably used Google technology. Let me see your amazing startup or business.

Not sure what you mean, we run everything on AWS, which is superior in every way to the competing offerings.

Yes, I'm sure you haven't heard of Kubernetes. Wonder which company invented that.

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by semi_good »

mav3rick wrote: post #246
semi_good wrote: post #230

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Not sure what you mean, we run everything on AWS, which is superior in every way to the competing offerings.

Yes, I'm sure you haven't heard of Kubernetes. Wonder which company invented that.

Again no, we use ECS, a managed container orchestration solution with far less operational overhead than K8s. Try again.

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by semi_good »

mav3rick wrote: post #246
semi_good wrote: post #230

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Not sure what you mean, we run everything on AWS, which is superior in every way to the competing offerings.

Yes, I'm sure you haven't heard of Kubernetes. Wonder which company invented that.

This conversation proves that you are clueless and arrogant (quote "everything you touched on the Internet today probably used Google technology" smh) and nobody good wants to work with you and that is why you cant build anything competitive in-house.

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Post by mav3rick »

semi_good wrote: post #248
mav3rick wrote: post #246

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Yes, I'm sure you haven't heard of Kubernetes. Wonder which company invented that.

This conversation proves that you are clueless and arrogant (quote "everything you touched on the Internet today probably used Google technology" smh) and nobody good wants to work with you and that is why you cant build anything competitive in-house.

Lol "nobody good wants to work with you". Keep telling yourself that. Done engaging here.

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Post by whalabi »

pesfandiar wrote: post #91
footlose_3815 wrote: post #77

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Nintendo's CEO's last name is Bowser. Our AG is named "Barr" (Pun on a Bar association) Is there a cool collection of these somewhere? These are the only evidence I feel that we're in a simulation and the engineer is fucking with us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym#Notable_examples

Incredible.
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