The tests showing Amazon results on top of the search results reminded some readers of the video “Epic 2015″ (Sequel to Epic 2014) a video which ‘predicts’ the future. The video becomes astonishing accurate if you think about what Google and Amazon could be up to. Is this what we want?
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UPDATE: Is Google Partnering up with Amazon? Or does Plugin fool us?
Original title: Is Google Partnering up with Amazon? Tests Suggest they are
Update: it seems as if a Chrome Plugin, “awesomescreenshot” might be the cause of these results showing up with certain people. This is not yet confirmed but could explain things. Google has not confirmed or denied anything was going on.
“Do no Evil” was a motto which was created a while ago. Everything which Google did had to be tested to that motto. Was it potentially evil? Don’t do it. Many believe that the motto is no longer in use and hasn’t been in use for a while. We’ll probably won’t know until another Googler or another Stephen Levy-type of journalist will report on it from inside Google walls. But if the tests some are seeing at the moment are true than another major group of Google-dislikers will probably arise.
Several people have mentioned on Twitter and in a blogpost that they are seeing “Amazon Results For…” on some of their queries. These results are placed on top of the regular search results, pushing down not only the regular results but also other shopping results. So far it is unclear whether this is a test, something Google is really doing or if it is a deal with Amazon or not. (more…)
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