Showing posts with label amazon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amazon. Show all posts

12 November 2020

EU takes on amazon for monopoly abuse

The EU has, in a preliminary report, accused amazon of using data of third party retailers on the platform to position its own products.

The EU is also opening an investigation on amazon promoting its own products and those of parties using its services over other third parties on the amazon platform.

5 December 2016

Amazon Go: shops without checkout

Amazon Go is Amazon's new concept of a brick and mortar shop.
Here's the manual:

  1. walk in
  2. pick your stuff
  3. walk out

22 October 2012

Amazon: The e-book library

Amazon advertizes itself as a book shop. That's correct for hard copies.
For e-books it's different: you can only borrow them.
Amazon is an e-book library.
And they can take back your books as they see fit.
Without warning, without explanation, without an independent judge.
Here's the story about a customer who had her kindle e-reader books removed,
because Amazon linked her account to another account that was closed for abuse of policy.
The customer asked:

  1. How my account is linked to the blocked account
  2. The name/id of the related blocked account
  3. What policy that was violated
She never got an answer.

11 February 2010

Lucene in the cloud (with diamonds)

Solr is now AmazonEC2 ready.
Acquia, the company behind Drupal, is selling Acquia Search, a commercial service based on it.
Another Lucene based server which we've been using, Searchblox, is also available commercially on AmazonEC2.