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Searching a product shows reviews, what others are saying, specs, etc

         

MrSavage

1:18 am on Jul 7, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Good Christ. I'm sure Bing is doing the same thing, but this keeps on chugging along. I've never seen this, but perhaps you have. I now and seeing that sidebar, "sponsored", but now complete with specs and...reviews!? These reviews or portions of them under "what people are saying", shows up in the sidebar. So there are like 2,000 reviews in this product, when you click that link with the stars, you essentially get an Amazon or typical ratings listing page like on Google play, etc, where you can sort or pick reviews based on stars. Yes, the source or the info is listed, such as 50 reviews "plucked" from Best Buy, etc. So you can show reviews by source.

Now WTF is going on. I know that Amazon.com tells associates that they CANNOT use user review on their own sites. Those are the property of Amazon and as you might expect, they take ownership. Now it appears that any review written in open for being used on Google.com.

I don't even know what to say. Nothing is better than getting a free resource to run a business. Like free ingredients for food and you create a menu, serve the food for free, but make the money on all the drink. I'm actually quite disgusted by what I'm seeing today. Not just Google I'm sure. Perhaps Bing started. No idea. I just know that somebody is right. Is Amazon right about their ownership of their content or all these other guys a bunch of idiots?

MrSavage

3:29 pm on Jul 8, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Nobody is really discussing the aspect of Google having say, 10,000 user reviews, yet they don't sell anything and those customers aren't even theirs. That's so curious to me, but I guess that's me. Heck, now it appears they are creating the world's biggest customer reviews database on the internet. It's like the wikipedia of customer reviews. Who needs CNET?

panic

4:25 pm on Jul 8, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Now WTF is going on. I know that Amazon.com tells associates that they CANNOT use user review on their own sites. Those are the property of Amazon and as you might expect, they take ownership. Now it appears that any review written in open for being used on Google.com.


Google started doing something similar years ago when they began scraping content from Yelp/etc & began displaying those reviews in "Google Places".

ChanandlerBong

9:07 am on Jul 9, 2015 (gmt 0)

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In 10, 15 years, we'll chuckle as we "remember the time when Google used to be a search engine?", in much the same way that Nintendo used to make flowery playing cards.

Google takes another massive aggressive step forward into others' territory and they can do so because nobody does anything to stop them. Need reviews? Offer $100m to company A and another $100m to company B. There's your reviews. Maybe they offered $1B to Amazon, or $2B and Amazon said "no way", but the Goog will have its reviews from 20 other sites happy to bank the cheque. Fait accompli. Amazon will end up approaching G to get involved...

I see G as nothing more than a virus now. The EU wrist slaps were merely a day or two of paracetamol.

netmeg

3:10 pm on Jul 9, 2015 (gmt 0)

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It's Google being Google. I dunno why anyone would be surprised.

MrSavage

3:22 pm on Jul 9, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Stage 1, Pac Man, how many dots remain on the level? Gobble, gobble, gobble.
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