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		bell-cot on Aug 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Search Bing for "Waterstones", top item shown is f... [ For those unfamiliar - Waterstones is a major British bookstore chain, with >300 stores, >3,000 employees, etc. https://www.waterstones.com/ ] Google pays $billions to Apple to be "unfairly" favored for search, Amazon doubtless pays Microsoft extremely well for similar treatment. It'd be nice if Waterstones' legal folks could do something...but my bet would be "nope".

mtmail on Aug 16, 2024 [–]

It's an ad, not an algorithmic change, so Amazon indeed pays.

*) I'd say clearly marked but of course the [Ad] is kept in toned down colors to make it not obvious

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