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?