Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Who regulates search?

As we learned last Saturday, Google's algorithm can cost (or make) millions to companies. Same as Amazon's but who is regulating them from favoring their own products to fatten their own bottom line?
This week (and it has happened many different times in the past for both companies) allegations that Amazon made changes to their own algorithm to improve revenues were reported by the Wall Street Journal:


It comes to show that with such a large impact in revenue, and no transparency at all, the room for maneuver is pretty ample. This is likely not the last time we hear about this.

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